Klaus Cichutek is an extraordinary Professor of Biochemistry at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, and President of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Germany. The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut is a Medicines Agency (veterinary and human vaccines, human biomedicines) reporting to the German Federal Ministry of Health and providing regulatory services to the European Medicines Agency EMA, to EDQM and others.