Prof Dr Andreas Frewer has been at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg since 2007, is head of the Clinical Ethics Committee at the University of Erlangen and a member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine. From 2014-2017, he was head of the EFI Excellence Project ‘Human Rights in Healthcare’ with Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Heiner Bielefeldt and founding member of the ‘Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg’ (CHREN) at FAU (2015).