Research Report 2000 - MDC

Organs of the Foundation
As provided by § 7 of its Charter the
organs of the Foundation of the Max
Delbrück Center for Molecular
Medicine (MDC) are the following:
• the Board of Trustees with the
Scientific Committee,
• the Management Board.
The Board of Trustees
As provided by § 8 of the Charter of
the Foundation, the Board of Trustees
ensures that the transactions of the
Foundation are conducted in a lawful,
expedient and financially responsible
manner. The Board determines within
the framework of the law the broad
research objectives and the main
research policy and financial matters
of the Foundation, lays down
principles of management and the
principles for evaluating results,
intervenes appropriately within the
decisions of the Board of
Management, and directs the Board of
Management in special matters of
research policy and finances.
Furthermore, the Board of Trustees
approves annual and extended budgets
(including expansion and investment
programs), draws up the Charter and
decides upon amendments to it,
decides upon the dissolution of the
Foundation, and takes decisions in
other cases provided for in the Law
and the Charter.
Figure 42 (left): Wolf-Michael Catenhusen
from the Federal Ministry of Education and
Research, has become Chairman of the Board
of Trustees at the MDC at the end of 1998.
Figure 43 (right): Fritz Melchers from the
Basel Institute for Immunology (Basel,
Switzerland), has shaped the MDC as chairman
of the Scientific Committee for almost eight
years. He left this post at the MDC in 1999.
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Members of the
Board of Trustees
Parliamentary State Secretary
Wolf-Michael Catenhusen (Chair)
Federal Ministry of Education and
Research, Bonn/Berlin (since March
1999)
Parliamentary State Secretary
Elke Wülfing (Chair)
Federal Ministry of Education, Science,
Research, and Technology, Bonn*
State Secretary Prof. Dr. Ingolf Hertel
(Vice-Chair)
Senate Administration for Science,
Research and Culture, Berlin
(since October 1998)
State Secretary Prof. Dr. Erich Thies
(Vice-Chair)
Senate Administration for Science,
Research and Culture, Berlin*
Dr. Jürgens Behrens
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular
Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Hans R. Brunner
C.H.U. Vaudois, Division of
Hypertension, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dietmar Bürgener
Federal Ministry of Finances,
Bonn/Berlin
Dr. Reinhold Förster
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular
Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Peter Gaehtgens
President of the Free University of
Berlin, Berlin (since June 1999)
Prof. Dr. Johann W. Gerlach
President of the Free University of
Berlin, Berlin*
Dr. Michael Hackenbroch
Federal Ministry of Education and
Research, Bonn/Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dr. Falko Herrmann
Institute for Human Genetics,
University of Greifswald, Greifswald
Senator Beate Hübner
Senate Administration of Health,
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Georg W. Kreutzberg
Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry,
Department of Neuromorphology,
Martinsried
Prof. Dr. Eckart Köttgen
Director of the Clinical Board of the
Charité Medical Faculty of the
Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Fritz Melchers*
Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel,
Switzerland