Christian Tidona is a scientist entrepreneur and founder of the BioMed X Institutes in Heidelberg, Germany and New Haven, Connecticut. He studied biology and received his doctoral degree in natural sciences from the University of Heidelberg. Throughout his career, his focus was always to seed innovation at the interface between academia and industry. Christian is co-founder of BioRN in Heidelberg, the cluster management organization at the heart of one of the strongest biomedical innovation hubs in Europe, co-founder of the Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine HI-STEM, and member of the Board of Directors of Yeda Research and Development, one of the world's most renowned technology transfer organizations at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Christian is married and father of two children.