1. Ernst Th. Rietschel is Chairman of the Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
2. Leena Bruckner-Tuderman is Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
3. Georg Schütte is State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin, Germany.
4. Günther Wess is President and Chief Executive Officer of Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany.