The foundation HTCR consists of the following bodies Management and Board, which are responsible for operative tasks, further Council, Ethics Board and Scientific Board. Members of the Ethics Board have to advise all bodies in questions of ethics, as activities of the foundation are concerned. They are able to develop ethical rules for the foundations activities and especially the allocation of funds, which should be binding after the consent of the foundations Council. The Scientific Board is, however, assigned to advise the Board and the Council on issues of research and technology. It offers recommendations on single projects or partnerships in research, if needed also on the basis of external expertise. The following persons are working in the different bodies:

Board

Isabel Hackl
Executive Board

Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Kfm. Michael-Peter Unger
Tax consultant, Neuried

Council

Prof. Dr. Karl-Walter Jauch
Director of the surgical clinic, clinic Großhadern, LMU München

Dr. Hans Wagner
Lawyer, Landrat a. D. von Amberg-Sulzbach

Ethics Board

Prof. em. Dr. Johannes Gründel
Moraltheologe, Freising

Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernhard Irrgang
Professor for the philosophy of technology at TU Dresden

Prof. Dr. Peter Tobias Stoll
Chair for Civil Law with focus on international law and international business law at the university of Göttingen

Scientific Board

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Büttner
Director, Department of pathology, University of Bonn

Prof. Dr. Achim Göpferich
Head of the chair for Pharmaceutical Technology of the University of Regensburg

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Ralf Huss
Roche Diagnostics GmbH Pharmaceutical Research - Biomarker Oncology

Prof. Dr. Michael D. Menger
Director of the department of clinical-experimental surgery, clinic of the University of Saarland, Homburg/ Saar

Prof. Dr. Hans J. Schlitt
Director of the surgical clinic, University of Regensburg

deceased:

Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter H. Hofschneider
Apl. Professor at the medical department,LMU München, em. scientific member and head of the study group Virus Research of Max-Planck-Institut for biochemics, Martinsried