Toni Cathomen is Professor of Cell & Gene Therapy and Director of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine & Gene Therapy at Medical Center - University of Freiburg. Before his appointment in Freiburg, he held positions at the Salk Institute, Charité Medical School and Hannover Medical School. His lab develops novel immune cell therapies and hematopoietic stem cell preparations using genome editing to treat patients suffering from HIV infection, primary immunodeficiencies and certain types of cancer.