Committees

Careers Committee

This committee designs ways to promote the early-career researchers in our network and reviews their funding applications for pilot and start-up projects. The committee members also decide on the admission of doctoral researchers to our Integrated Research Training Group.

• Career support in our research network

Committee members

• Kiefer, Friedemann, Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Rentmeister, Andrea, Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Schäfers, Michael, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
• Wirth, Benedikt, Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Dietrich, Ann-Christin, Dr. rer. nat.
• Masthoff, Max, Dr. med. MBA
• Beckmann, Daniel (Representative of the IRTG doctoral researchers)
• Bobe, Stefanie (Representative of the IRTG doctoral researchers)

Equal Opportunity Committee

This committee develops our network’s strategy for advancing equal opportunities, designs appropriate activities and distributes the funding allocated by the German Research Foundation for their implementation.

• Equal opportunity in our research network

Committee members

• Dersch, Petra, Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Karst, Uwe, Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Landfester, Katharina, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Risse, Benjamin, Univ.-JProf. Dr. rer. nat.
• Alonso Gonzalez, Noelia, Dr. rer. nat.
• Block, Helena, Dr. rer. nat.
• Bauer, Nadine (Representative of the IRTG doctoral researchers)

Research Data Committee

This committee develops strategies for research data archiving and management, and the development of software tools that enable our members to apply both established algorithms and those newly developed by our network for analysing biomedical imaging data.

Committee members

• Huser, Thomas, Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. II
• Jiang, Xiaoyi, Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. nat.
• Karst, Uwe, Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Kiefer, Friedemann, Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Linsen, Lars, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing.
• Risse, Benjamin, Univ.-JProf. Dr. rer. nat.
• Schäfers, Klaus, Prof. Dr. rer. medic.
• Schäfers, Michael, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
• Wirth, Benedikt, Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
• Hermann, Sven, Priv.-Doz. Dr. med.
• Hörr, Verena, Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat.
• Vogl, Raimund, Dr. rer. nat.

Translational Committee

This committee develops strategies for the timely and efficient translation of preclinical results into first-in-human studies.

Committee members

• Reuter, Stefan, Prof. Dr. med.
• Rossaint, Jan, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
• Roth, Johannes, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
• Schäfers, Michael, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
• Steinbrink, Kerstin, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
• Zarbock, Alexander, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
• Backhaus, Philipp, Dr. med.
• Hermann, Sven, Priv.-Doz. Dr. med.
• Masthoff, Max, Dr. med. MBA

External Advisory Board

Our advisory board members advise the Executive Board on strategic issues and provide quality control, e.g. by reviewing “perspective projects” for future funding periods.

Committee members

• Buck, Andreas, Prof. Dr. med. (Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Germany)
• Devoogdt, Nick, Prof. Dr. (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
• de Bruijne, Marleen, Prof. Dr. (Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands & University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Kolmar, Harald, Prof. Dr. (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
• Ley, Klaus, Prof. MD (La Jolla Institute for Immunology, San Diego, USA)
• Mäkinen, Taija, Prof. Dr. (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Ramlau, Ronny, Univ. Prof. Dr. (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
• Rot, Antal, Prof. MD (Queen Mary University of London, England)