Christoph Lange is the Medical Director and Chief Physician at the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Centre, in Germany. He is Professor for Respiratory Medicine & International Health at the University of Lübeck (Germany) and currently holds additional academic appointments at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX (USA), the University of Umea (Sweden) and the State University for Medicine and Pharmacy in Chisinau (R. Moldova). His primary research focus is on the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of patients with MDR-TB.