Professor Dr. Leticia Quintanilla de Fend, head of the Core Facility and Senior Physician at the Institute of Pathology has extensive experience in the interpretation of mouse models. From 2000 until 2008 she was a director of the mouse pathology at the Institute of Pathology of the Helmholtz Center Munich and the Pathology Screen of the German Mouse Clinic (GMC) and established various special procedures for the analysis of mouse models. Professor Quintanilla de Fend is involved in the establishment of standards in the pathology of mouse models within EU networks.