On Monday, November 2, 2026, we were pleased to have Dr. Balca Mardin from Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, visit us. The insights she shared about her personal career during the meeting with our doctoral students were particularly inspiring. Her subsequent presentation on “Target Discovery & Research in Oncology” as part of the Biological Colloquium of the Faculty of Biology was also highly interesting and was very well received. We would like to express our sincere thanks.