In order to effectively combat the corona pandemic, the German government has set up a scientific expert council to advise it on the basis of current scientific findings on the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. Prof. Falk (MHH) and Prof. Meyer-Hermann (HZI) are also members of this 19-member panel.

Prof. Dr. Christine Falk, member of the RESIST Internal Advisory Board, is President of the German Society for Immunology. She heads the Institute for Transplantation Immunology at the Hannover Medical School (MHH).

RESIST researcher Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer-Hermann is a physicist and heads the HZI department “Systems Immunology” at the Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS), a joint research facility of the HZI and the Technische Universität Braunschweig.