Michael Baumann is Professor of Radiation Oncology at the TU Dresden, Clinical Director of Radio Therapy and Radio Oncology at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus. He also is director of the Institute of Radiooncology at the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) as well as director of the OncoRay Center for Radiation Research in Oncology. In recent years he was the driving force for today’s excellent cooperation between the cancer research locations Dresden and Heidelberg. The most recent example is the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Dresden, in 2015 that will be built in partnership with the DKFZ as a second location in addition to Heidelberg.