Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of the TMF consists of nine persons elected by the Meeting of Members. Each research network may be represented on the Board by no more than one person. The Executive Board consists of three persons: the Chairperson and two deputies.
The TMF Board of Directors is strategically composed of persons from various activity groups among its members. It includes spokespersons from member organizations, managing directors and IT coordinators. Thus, all requirements arising from work in networked research is incorporated into the steering of the TMF.
The responsibilities of the Board of Directors particularly include:
- Strategic management of the Association in order to fulfill the aims as set out in the Articles of Association
- Preparation and convening of the Meetings of Members and implementation of the resolutions made at them
- Convening the Advisory Board
- Appraisal of the projects
- Drawing up the annual economic plan, the annual report and the annual financial statement
- Election and admission of new members
The Meeting of Members reelected the Board of Directors on April 16, 2010.
Members of the Board of Directors:

Prof. Dr. Michael Krawczak
Chairman | Acquisition of members
Member of the National Genome Research Network (NGFN plus)

Dr. Dr. Michael Kiehntopf
Vice Chairman | TMF Statutes
Member of the research network PROGRESS
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann
Vice Chairman | Intermeshing of research and patient care
Member of the Study of Health in Pommerania (SHIP)
Prof. Dr. Norbert Brockmeyer
TMF Annual Meeting | Communication between Board of Directors and working groups
Spokesman of the Competence Network HIV/AIDS
Prof. Dr. Ulrich R. Fölsch
Strategy & Scientific Contacts
Member of the Popgen 2.0 Network
Prof. Dr. Walter Lehmacher
Finance
Member of the ZKS Cologne
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Neubauer
Co-ordinator of the network Pathogenesis of Q fever
Prof. Dr. Marcella Rietschel
Member of the National Genome Research Network (NGFN transfer)
Prof. Dr. Frank Ückert
IT Infrastructure
Member of the network SkinStaph
Board of Directors 2009
November 22nd & 23rd, 2010

L.t.r.: Prof. Dr. M. Krawczak, Prof. Dr. U.R. Fölsch, Prof. Dr. M. Rietschel,
Dr. Dr. M. Kiehntopf, PD Dr. H. Neubauer, Prof. Dr. N. Brockmeyer, Prof. Dr. F. Ückert,
Prof. Dr. W. Hoffmann.
June 23rd, 2010

L.t.r.: Prof. Dr. W. Lehmacher, Prof. Dr. U.R. Fölsch, Prof. Dr. M. Rietschel,
Dr. Dr. M. Kiehntopf, Prof. Dr. M. Krawczak, Prof. Dr. F. Ückert, Prof. Dr. N. Brockmeyer.
Absent: Prof. Dr. W. Hoffmann, PD Dr. H. Neubauer.
Board of Directors 2009
July 3rd, 2009

L.t.r.: Prof. Dr. F. Ückert, Prof. Dr. N. Brockmeyer, Prof. Dr. W. Lehmacher, Prof. Dr. U.R. Fölsch, Prof. Dr. U. Prokosch, Prof. Dr. W. Hoffmann, Dr. H. Neubauer, Dr. Dr. M. Kiehntopf, Prof. Dr. M. Krawczak.
Board of Directors 2008
July 4th, 2008

L.t.r.: Prof. Dr. W. Lehmacher, Prof. Dr. M. Krawczak,
Dr. Dr. M. Kiehntopf, Prof. Dr. H. Neubauer, Prof. Dr. U.R. Fölsch,
Prof. Dr. U. Prokosch, Prof. Dr. N. Brockmeyer, Dr. K. Roichter,
Prof. Dr. W. Hoffmann.
Board of Directors 2007
October 12th, 2007

L.t.r.: Prof. Dr. M. Krawczak, Prof. Dr. Ch. Ohmann,
Prof. Dr. W. Köpcke, Prof. Dr. O. Rienhoff, Prof. Dr. U.R. Fölsch,
Prof. Dr. W. H. Oertel, Prof. Dr. U. Prokosch, Dr. K. Richter.
Atendees of the directors meeting 2007
October 12th, 2007

L.t.r.: S.C. Semler, M. Freudigmann, Prof. Dr. M. Krawczak,
A. Schütt, Prof. Dr. Ch. Ohmann, Prof. Dr. W. Köpcke,
Prof. Dr. O. Rienhoff, Prof. Dr. U.R. Fölsch, Prof. Dr. W.H. Oertel,
Prof. Dr. U. Prokosch, Dr. K. Richter, Dr. A. Pollex-Krüger, Dr. M. Goller, A. Hollmann.
Board of Directors 2006
May 5th, 2006

Back row (l.t.r.): Prof. Dr. W.H. Oertel, Prof. Dr. O Rienhoff,
Prof. Dr. H.-U. Prokosch, Prof. Dr. C. Ohmann, Prof. Dr. M. Krawczak,
Dr. K. Richter. Front row(l.t.r.): Dr. R. Herold, Prof. Dr. U.R. Fölsch,
Prof. Dr. N. Brockmeyer.
Board of Directors 2005
Members of the Board of Directors, Council of Funding Organisations, Advisory board and of the TMF Office at the directors meeting in Berlin on July 7th, 2005.

Standing (l.t.r.): Dr. M. Zipperer, R. Vetter, Dr. G. Brenner,
Prof. Dr. Ch. Ohmann, A. Hollmann, R. Speer, Dr. C.A. Herok,
Dr. M. Wittenberg, Prof. Dr. W. H. Oertel, Prof. Dr. U.R. Fölsch,
Dr. K. Richter, Prof. Dr. O. Rienhoff, J. Drepper, Dr. D. Lucht.
Sitting (l.t.r.): S. C. Semler, D. Padeken, Prof. Dr. K. Überla, Dr. R. Becker, A. Schütt.