The DFG review boards evaluate proposals to fund research projects. They also monitor the review process to ensure that uniform standards are being observed. Their advice is also taken on issues concerning the further development and refinement of the DFG funding programmes. 

Members of the review boards are elected by researchers for four years in accordance with election regulations to be adopted by the Senate. They are assigned to a subject area according to the focus of their own research work. A group of subject areas that are scientifically linked form one review board. The structure of subject areas and review boards is re-examined by the DFG Senate every four years as part of the preparations for the review board elections and modified if necessary. A minimum of two representatives are selected for each subject area. The number of representatives per subject area also depends on how many funding proposals are received in this area and require review and assessment. The review boards draw up their own rules of procedure that must be approved by the Senate. They also elect a spokesperson and a deputy spokesperson.

The following scientists were elected for the subject area immunologie (No. 204-05):

1. Kamradt, Thomas, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Institut für Immunologie; Jena

2. Bröker, Barbara M., Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Institut für Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Abteilung Immunologie; Greifswald

3. Wienands, Jürgen, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Immunologie; Göttingen

4. Förster, Irmgard, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, LIMES-Institut, Abteilung Immunologie und Umwelt; Bonn

5. Watzl, Carsten, Leibniz-Institut für Arbeitsforschung an der TU Dortmund; Dortmund