Prof. Dr. R. Fahlbusch is director of the Endocrine Neurosurgical Board at the International Neuroscience Institute Hannover, Germany since 2005. After completing his training in Munich, he took position as Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Erlangen-Nürnberg University. Most of his medical career is dedicated to the treatment of pituitary and para sellar tumors. Here he defined treatment paradigms for the generations to come. At our Symposium he hold a fascinating and didactic excellent talk about his operative experience in cranio pharyngeomas.