ithout exception, the founders of    e.V. place  extra-ordinarily
high   value  on  their   independence  from   any  particular  interest  group.
Coming from various backgrounds (including professional experience in the
pharmaceutical and medical device industries,  statutory  health insurance,
clinical  practice  in  hospital  and  private  settings,  as  well  as  university-
based  research in  fields such as econometrics,  clinical  psychiatry  and  ex-
perimental  brain research),  they have committed themselves to  a strictly
scientific, non-partisan approach to their projects.