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Lothar Wieler: He has headed the RKI since March 2015
Photo: Michele Tantussi / AFP
The President of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, will resign at his own request on April 1st.
The institute announced this in a press release.
Wieler will devote himself to new tasks in research and teaching, it says.
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach agreed with the step.
Wieler has headed the RKI since March 2015.
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