The outgoing RKI President Lothar Wieler was a guest at the University of Munich, not only, but also to talk about the past three years. Now it is time to focus on other diseases again.
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Christina Berndt
Lothar Wieler did not come to Munich entirely voluntarily. And yet it is a pleasure to be there, said the President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) when he and Oliver joined the series of “Science Talks” at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (LMU) on Tuesday evening Keppler, Director of Virology at the LMU, spoke about the risks of future pandemics – and also a lot about the current one. According to Wieler, he simply had to turn up for this conversation in the auditorium of the university where he himself had studied veterinary medicine in the 1980s and also received his doctorate: Last summer, the LMU awarded him an honorary doctorate, and on Immediately after the “very nice day” he was invited to the “Science Talk” by University Vice President Oliver Jahraus, who moderated the evening. “I couldn’t say no at all,” said Wieler.