The steering committee is made up of members of the three founding faculties of the research focus. These are the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences. The steering committee currently has nine members. The spokesman for the group is Professor Thomas Bosch, deputy spokesman is Professor Stefan Schreiber. For special tasks, up to three further persons can be appointed to the group who, as necessary, are represented in the steering committee with the status of permanent guest.