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
Elie-Metchnikoff Professor of Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Director emeritus, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung, Bad Nauheim
Speaker of the Excellence Cluster „Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI)
Founding Director of the Institute for Lung Health (ILH)
Director of a Guest Lab, Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires (IBioBA), Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society
Fellow of ERS (FERS)

Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Kauczor

Director of the DZL site TLRC
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 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. Gesine Hansen

Director of the DZL Site BREATH
Medical Director and Full Professor (W3), Center of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology at Hanover Medical School (MHH)
Spokesperson Cluster of Excellence 2155 "RESIST: Resolving Infection Susceptibility", German Research Foundation (DFG)
Spokesperson Research Group for Clinician Scientists, "TITUS: The first thousand days of life", Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung
Spokesperson Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 587, "Immune regulation of the lung in infection and allergy" (2009-2013)
President Society of Pediatric Pneumology (2008-2015)
Head Research Group “Immunregulatory Mechanisms in Allergy and Asthma, BMBF (2001-2006)

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

Overview: Organization

The structure of DZL

Prof. Dr. Werner Seeger

Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Kauczor

Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Rabe

Prof. Dr. Gesine Hansen

Prof. Dr. Ali Önder Yildirim

DZL Engagements