Board of Directors

The structure of DZL

The Directors of the five DZL sites constitute the DZL Board of Directors; they are responsible for the overall strategic planning of the DZL program.

	Prof. Dr. Werner Seeger DZL Chairman and Speaker Director of the DZL site UGMLC Director of Medical Clinic and Polyclinic II/Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen Director, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung, Bad Nauheim Speaker of the Exzellenzclusters „Cardio-Pulmonary System“ (ECCPS) Fellow of ERS (FERS)
	Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Kauczor Director of the TLRC DZL site Medical Director of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg Provisional Director of the Department of Translational Pulmonology at Heidelberg Universit Hospital TLRC• Heidelberg University Hospital•
	Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Rabe Director of the DZL Site ARCN Medical Director of the LungenClinic Grosshansdorf Professor of Pneumology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel Chairman of the Institute for Lung Research (ILF) President of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2011/2012 Fellow of ERS (FERS) President of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) 2017 – 2019
	Prof. Dr. Tobias Welte † Director of the DZL Site BREATH Chairman of the German Sepsis Society Speaker for the Clinical Study Center Hanover (KS-MHH) Member of the Presidium of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine(DIVI) Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CAPNETZ Foundation Head of the Competence Center for Infectious Diseases Director of the Competence Network ASCONET President of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) 2013-2015 Vice-President of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2016/2017, „ERS President Elect” 2017/2018, ERS-Präsident 2018/2019 Fellow of ERS (FERS)
	Prof. Dr. Ali Önder Yildirim Director of the DZL Site CPC-M Director Institute of Lung Health and Immunity (LHI)/Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC), Helmholtz Munich Professor Institute of Experimental Pneumology, LMU-Clinic, Munich Board of Directors Stiftung Atemweg