Sabine Steffens studied Biology in Giessen and received her PhD title in Duesseldorf, Germany. After a short postdoctoral fellowship in Philadelphia, she worked for 10 years at the Medical Faculty of Geneva, Switzerland, as a postdoc and junior group leader. Since 2013, she is Associate Professor for Clinical Pathobiochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. Her research is focusing on the role of the endocannabinoid system and related endogenous signaling pathways during inflammatory processes underlying atherosclerosis and cardiac repair. Some of her recent key studies on the role of innate immune responses in post-myocardial infarction healing and the influence of the circadian rhythm on these processes have been published in European Heart Journal, EMBO Molecular Medicine and Circulation.