Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, PhD, is a Group Leader at Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE) Freiburg, Germany and a full professor of STEM CELL BIOLOGY and AGEING at ETH Zürich in Switzerland.

She is passionate about the biology of haematopoietic stem cells, an extremely rare population of bone marrow cells that produce billions of new blood cells every day. Her studies have identified dietary habits that promote healthy blood stem cells. The ultimate goal of her research is to develop innovative therapeutic strategies for haematological diseases, such as leukaemia.

In 2021 she was selected by EMBO for the Young Investigator Program, the programme to support young European researchers. She was awarded the prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant in 2017 and Consolidator Grant in 2024.