The steering comitee and the scientific directors of the Helmholtz Association visited the Systems Biology Centre BRICS on 26 June 2018. Together with the President of the Technical University of Braunschweig, Professor Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, the Helmholtz Executive Board informed about the research of the joint institution of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the TU Braunschweig. The occasion was the meeting of the Helmholtz Executive Committee and the Scientific Board of the HZI.