News

December 2025

Prof. Dr. Susanne Wegmann, Charité - Universitätsmedizin and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Berlin, was appointed to the Board for a five-year period.

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila, Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research at the University of Munich Medical Center, was appointed to the Board for a five-year period.

June 2025

After 15 years Prof. Dr. Mandelkow leaves on grounds of age.

October 2023

After 10 years Bernd Kriegeskorte, Vice-Chairman of the Board, leaves on grounds of age.

June 2023

Hans F. W. Frey, former head of different Dresdner Bank branches, was appointed to the Board for a five-year period.

August 2021

New address:
VERUM Foundation, c/o H. Eickhoff, Willinger Str. 32a, 83043 Bad Aibling

December 2019

After 10 years, Prof. Dr. Christian Haass leaves the Board of Trustees due to numerous other obligations.
Hannelore Eickhoff, working for the VERUM Foundation since 1999, was appointed to the Board for a five-year period.

December 2017

After 25 years Prof. Dr. Klaus Thurau, Chairman of the Board from 1992 until 2014, leaves the Board on grounds of age.

July 2016

New member of the Board: Prof. Dr. Peter Falkai, Director of the Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, has been elected for a five-year period.