Georg Stoecklin is professor for biochemistry at Heidelberg University, Germany. He earned an MD and PhD in Biology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Following postdoctoral training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, he became junior group leader at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. Since 2016, he heads the Division of Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University. He is also director of the Faculty Core Technology Platform and co-director of the Mannheim Institute of Innate Immunoscience. Pr Georg Stoecklin joined the IGBMC / Illkirch for a sabbatical and is hosted by Bertrand Séraphin. During his time in Strasbourg, he is Associated Chair of RNA Biology at the USIAS / University of Strasbourg. He will give a first conference "Insights into the control of mammalian mRNA splicing, translation and decay" at the IBMC on 08/12/2023 at 11am.