Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is organized on the collegial principle and consists of the four scientific directors and the administrative director. One of the scientific directors is appointed by the Foundation Council to act as a Managing Director for a period of 5 years. The managing director and the administrative director form the institute's Board of Management as a part of the Board of Directors. The Board of Management represents judicially and extrajudicially the IPB.

Board of Directors as composed in August 2010:

• Prof. Dr. Ludger Wessjohann
  Managing Director and Head of the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry
• Lothar Franzen
  Head of Administration
• Prof. Dr. Dierk Scheel
  Head of the Department of Stress and Developmental Biology
• Prof. Dr. Steffen Abel
  Head of the Department of Molecular Signal Processing
• Prof. Dr. Dieter Strack
  Head of the Department of Secondary Metabolism