Professor Sten Eirik W Jacobsen earned his MD and PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway. At Lund University he became the first Professor of Stem Cell Biology in Sweden. Sten Eirik established and led one of the first six Swedish Strategic Centers of Excellence in Life Sciences: the Lund Stem Cell Center. In 2006, he was appointed to an endowed chair at the University of Oxford, The Anne T and Robert M Bass Chair and Professorship in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology as applied to Medicine, and at the Weatherall Institute of Medicine (WIMM) he established a new Laboratory of Haematopoietic Stem Cell Biology. In 2010, he was appointed as a Guest Professor in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet and was part of establishing a new Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine. In 2014, he was awarded an international recruitment grant from the Swedish Research Council and accepted a full professorship in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Sten Eirik also sustains a part-time Professorship and research programme at the WIMM. Professor Jacobsen is the recipient of a number of Scandinavian prizes including the Fernström Prize for young investigators (2000), Göran Gustafsson Prize in Medicine (2005), and the Tobias Prize (2014). He is a member of advisory boards of centres of excellence in Sweden and internationally, organising committees of international meetings, prize/award committees, and international research/grant review panels. Sten Eirik’s research has identified extrinsic and intrinsic regulators of hematopoiesis and hematopoietic stem cells, and novel lineage commitment steps and stem cell subsets in normal hematopoiesis as well as the identity and therapy-responsiveness of stem cells required and sufficient for propagating hematological malignancies. Sten Eirik is a co-founding principal investigator of OxStem Oncology.