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Christoph Stein (orcid.org/0000-0001-5240-6836) studied Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) München, Germany, and received training in Anaesthesiology, Pain Management and Neuropharmacology at State University of New York, University of California Los Angeles, LMU and Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry (München, Germany). He then accepted a faculty position at Johns Hopkins Hospital and established a research group at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (Baltimore, USA). In 1997 he assumed the Chair of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Freie Universität Berlin (since 2003: Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin) and started an interdisciplinary research laboratory consisting of basic researchers and clinicians. His work has focused on mechanisms of opioid actions outside the central nervous system with the aim to avoid adverse effects such as addiction or respiratory depression. In collaboration with Mathematics at the Zuse Institute Berlin, his group recently developed an artificial intelligence-based design for non-addictive opioid painkillers. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and received several awards, most notably by the US National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse, the International Anesthesia Research Society, the European Pain Federation, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.