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June 2013
Dear Wilsede Friends
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Rolf Neth
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September 2012
August 2012
Poverty and Elite
Reflections on four decades Science in Wilsede
July 2012
January 2012
Dear Wilsede Participants and Wilsede Friends
The Wilsede Experiment “Modern Trends in Human Leukemia” started Midsummer night 1973, for three long days and nights in the 350 years old farmhouse “De Emhof”. Those who have joined the bienal horse-drawn expedition to Wilsede in the inner Reaches of the Lümeburger Heide south of Hamburg, have enjoyed stimulating and informal Discussions. The rustic “De Emmhof” has provided a convival setting for many lively, and at times provocativ, debates.
The educational component of Wilsede enjoyed both – Students and golden oldies alike - is not to be underestimated, in an increasingly specialised, technical and rapidly developing research arena it serves a vital function. The Wilsede meetings have proved the ideal forum for practising medical doctors and basic scientist to meet together and discuss new innovations from molecular biology to treatment strategies to help leukemic and cancer Patients. We selected for historical and still actuell informations 10% of the Wilsede publications in this Internet File“Modern Trends in Human Leukemia” .
Rolf Neth
New informations about history of leukemia, 1973 - 2011 - find here.
next Wilsede Meeting 2012 - here -
Treatment Strategies
ORIGINAL PRESENTATION
Special Lectures
MOLECULARBIOLOGY
Please join us with corrections and comments
January 2012, Hamburg
Multimedia: wulf.neth@gmx.de - IT: erik@stunkat.de
October 2011
The Maximow Award is taking place within the framework of the German-Russian Year of Education, Science and Innovation 2011/2012. Under the title "Development of Stem Cell Transplantation: a Debate", it is kindly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
It is a special cooperation project designed by the Transplant Centers of Hamburg and St. Petersburg and the journal Cellular Therapy and Transplantation (CTT, www.ctt-journal.com). Join the competition here on October 1st!
Alexander Maximov in Wilsede
A few words about my last work, which I called " Alexander Maximov's world". I could think that many of you had to learn or to study his experiments and results, when they were students. Well, I am not competent enough to give a valuation of his work or meaning in histology. But the few things I read about his work and life gave me a great deal of respect and admiration. Specially how he drew and painted the results of his experiments in such a filligran and precise way. Amongst scientists, often the work of a colleague is not always considered with great admiration rather more with a feeling of respect or competition. So, when I put up some kind of a monument for Alexander Maximov, it is the painters admiration for a scientist, who probably drew much better than I ever would do in histology.
Now to my work: There is the real and spiritual world of Alexander Maximov. The polarisation of the idea is seen on the right side which shows the three stations in his life.
- First: St. Petersburg, where he worked at the Military Medical Academy for some years.
- Second: In Berlin, the Charite Hospital, where he worked like his famous colleagues Arinkin and Botkin before. And last station of his life was the University of Chicago where he had to emigrate with heavy heart after october revolution. On the left side you see two blood pictures which have been drawn by Alexander Maximov.
- Third: The upper picture which looks like a Super Nova is a cell of a mouse fibroplast which Alexander Maximov in his time could not see like this, as the electronic microscope wasn't invented then. This is the contemporary level of this work together with the circled Wilsede motif over the tower.
If you look closer and I could help everybody with my magnifying glass, you discover that Maximov's two blood pictures are drawn in the silhouette of the Emhof (up side down) and the Granary. The Center shows the portrait of Alexander Maximov about the time as a young man in St. Petersburg and it shows close to his heart the entrance to his laboratory in the Military Academy. To end now, I sum up the key idea may be called 5 seconds of inspiration and five weeks of rather hard work. Alexander Maximov as a tower surrounded by the real buildings St. Petersburg, Berlin and Chicago and on the other hand surrounded by his spiritual buildings, the blood pictures in the silhouette of Wilsedes granary and the Emhof. So I thank you for accompanying my explanations of Alexander Maximov from St. Petersburg to us here in Wilsede.
Michel WeidemannMaximov's world, Etching 40 x 60 by Michel Weidemann
Malcolm Moore
Wolga 1990Alexandra Sipol
Bone Morrow Transplantation Centre St. Petersburg, Wilsede 2005Alexander Friedenstein
Malcom Moore, Alexander Friedenstein, Wilsede 1988
Malcolm Moore
Stohlmann Memorial Lecture: Interactions Between Hematopoietic Growth Factors, Wilsede 1988
Tim Hunt
Discussion with students, Wilsede 2008
G-CSF
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Karl Welte
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Karl Welte - Malcolm Moore
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Roland Mertelsmann
September 2011
Grundkennziffern für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung - Chernobyl 2008
- GESUNDHEITSZUSTAND DER VOM REAKTORUNGLÜCK VON TSCHERNOBYL BETROFFENEN BEVÖLKERUNG DES GEBIETS GOMEL (ZEITRAUM 2008-2009) - pdf (deutsch) // pdf (russisch)
- Gomel Schreiben der russichen Ärztinnen - pdf (deutsch) // pdf (russisch)
Dear Wilsede Participants and Wilsede Friends
Science on the way in Wilsede
Trial and Error - Xenophanes of Colophon
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortales, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
Nicht von Beginn an enthüllen die Götter den Sterblichen alles,aber im Laufe der Zeit finden wir, suchend, das Bess`re.
1973 - Wilsede Experiment started
An Introduction by Rolf Neth:
Nearly every month there are workshops, conferences or congresses devoted to the problems of human leukemia, for our knowledge is quite limited. In large measure, these conferences have been concerned with Special aspects of leukemia. In this workshop we have brought together scientists from different research areas in human leukemia. Therefore the title "Modern Trends in Human Leukemia does not only apply to the discussion of the importance of molecular biology, but also includes the 100 year old history of the leukemic cell as the basis of biological and irnmunological aspects in human leukemia. Modern trends in human leukemia need to be discussed based on the past, present and possible future information gathered from all different, but related topics.
The idea to bring together highly qualified biochemists, medical doctors, and virologists to learn, like students, about each other's fields has been very unusual. But to understand human leukemia, the virologists and biochemists have to learn more about the properties of the human blood cell, and the medical doctors have to learn where and how leukemic misinformation can influence the normal regulation of the molecular control mechanism in a blood cell. To start such a workshop, therefore, was to start an experiment. In this experiment, the hope was that these scientists would learn about each other's research fields and also teach others about their own specialized fields as well. The final aim was that those in the workshop would discuss the whole problem of human leukemia, and cooperative research programs among the different specialized groups would be stimulated.
We tried the experiment for three long days and nights in a 350 year old farmhouse. I would like to thank all people who made this possible. Our hope is now that you can be stimulated and encouraged to try similar experiments
The Leukemic Cell in Vivo and in vitro, F. Stohlman
Discussion at the Emhoff in Wilsede: (Link, Foto) Duesberg, Gallo, Hehlmann, Hunt, Ostertag, Stohlman et al )
1984 On the Way
An Introduction by Mel Greaves
1986 Personal Reflexions on the Origin of Human Leukemia:
Hans Eidig Lecture by Robert Gallo
1988 Current Trends:
a view of N.A. Mitchisons
Maximow`s Ideas and Modern Models by A.Friedenstein
Maximov's world
Etching 40 x 60 by Michel Weidemann
Via Wolga to Russia
with: Elena Frolova, Joseph Chertkov, Elena Elsner, Hanne-Lore Neth, Rolf Neth, Alexander Friedenstein, Boris Afanasiev (1988, initial meeting Buchholz-Nordheide, Germany.
1990 A door is open
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Friends
In 1988, after the last Wilsede meeting, Elena Frolova and her friends had the marvelous idea of organizing a Volga Wilsede meeting. Today, I am very pleased that this idea became true. Every day, we dream of freedom and peace. A small part of this dream has today come into our hands.
Everybody here has done his best to come together for good science and in friendship. I am sure that this Volga Wilsede meeting and the Neva Wilsede Meeting will become part of the international tradition of good science In a peaceful human atmosphere. For us this door IS open: let us go through.
Moscow, 13 June 1990 Rolf Neth
Moscow-Volga Videos
Human Leukemia Genes: Search for the Villains by Janet Rowly
Human Retroviruses: Linkage to Leukemia and Aids by Robert Gallo
Bone Marrow Transplantation in Children with Acute Leukemia by Don Pinkel
2010 Still alive
Wilsede 2005, Axel Zander
Wilsede 2008, Axel Zander
St Petersburg 1990-2010 Boris Afanasiev, Michail Gorbatschow, Axel Zander, more
Dear Participants:
Please join us with corrections, comments, personal fotos. Thanks
Yours sincerely Axel Zander, Rolf Neth, Oktober 2010, Hamburg
Wilsede Meeting: www.wilsede-meeting.com
Boris Fehse, Carol Stocking, Axel Zander - Hamburg
Scientific Profiles: angela.grosse@googlemail.com -Multimedia: wulf.neth@gmx.de - IT: erik@stunkat.de
2011 Wilsede Synapses on the way
Cooperation:
40 years Wilsede Suport
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Erich und Gertrud Roggenbuck-Stiftung zur Krebshilfe
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Onkologie
- National Cancer Institute, Contract NIH-73-1253, USA
- Deutsche Krebshilfe
- Leukemia Research Fund (GB)
- Leukemia Society of America
- Körberstiftung, Hamburg
- Stiftung Volkswagenwerk, Hannover
- Hertha-Grober-Stiftung, Hamburg
2013 start up the Wilsede Club
Dear Wilsede Friends
To keep the Wilsede window open for coming generations of young scientist we need your support – in terms of both, personal academic information amd, at a modest level, financially.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, “ On Certainty” ( 1965, 1975 byBlackwell Publishing Ltd.) 27.April 1951
671 But for all that- even if they trust me-they might believe I had been dreaming or that “magic” had made me imagine it… I cannot seriously suppose that I am at this moment dreaming
April 2011
Childhood Leukemia
Mel Greaves (right) with Don Pinkel (left) and Professor David Galton (centre) at a conference in Wilsede, Germany (1982).
WHITE BLOOD
Personal Journeys with Childhood Leukaemia edited by Mel Greaves (The Institute of Cancer Research, UK) ISBN: 978-981-279-039-2 - 2008 World Scientific Pub Co"The death of any child is a tragedy; a promise of life stolen. A child suffering from and then dying of cancer seems hideously cruel. There was a time in Europe when the loss of an infant or childwas commonplace due to endemic infections or malnutrition. This still happens, disgracefully so, on a prodigious scale in less developed regions of the planet."
‘Typing the Leukaemic Cells’ by Susan Macfarlane.
"The narratives are illustrated with evocative paintings on childhood leukaemia by a remarkable artist, Susan Macfarlane. Sadly, Susan died in 2002 and we are grateful to her sons, Euan and Angus Mackay, for their permission to reproduce some of her extraordinary paintings here, all of which derive from the exhibition ‘Living with Leukaemia’, commissioned by Dr. Geoffrey Farrer-Brown.
WHITE BLOOD - Personal Journeys with Childhood Leukaemia © World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.The book is available here.
Introduction to childhood leukemia - Don Pinkel: here.
A scientists journey - Mel Greaves: here.
Mel Greaves: Genetic Architecture of Leukaemia
Section of Haemato-Oncology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
ACUTE LEUKEMIAS XIII, Biology and Treatment Strategies, Munich, 28 February 2011
- Slides: Genetic Architecture of Leukaemia (download and open the pdf from your desktop)
- Press Release: here
- Abstract: here
Modern Trends in Human Leukemia
1973 we started in Wilsede Modern Trends in Human Leukemia. Rüdiger Hehlmann, who was with us since 1973 in Wilsede, had the idea to join IACRL, the Wilsede Meetings, Acute-Leukemias, Leukemia-Net and others for "sciencetransfer with social awareness" to help in Leukemia diagnosis and therapy worldwide. For this, we started the Internet Portal www.humanleukemia.com
To keep this Idea alive we need the help of our scientific friends arround the world.
Clara Bloomfield, Robert Gallo, Melvin Greaves, Rüdiger Hehlman, Rolf Neth, Don Pinkel, Axel Zander
Aids and Prevention
Robert Gallo , assigned by Harald zur Hausen , George Klein and Sol Spiegelman informed us about Virus and Cancer in Wilsede .
In January 1985 I got a letter from Dr. Koch (read the original - and the answer from Dr. Neth) He informed me about HTLV III infections around Karlsborg. I agreed that we have to prevent by education and bloodtest .
1990 Robert Gallo was on the Volga Wilsede Meeting in an Interview critical optimistic for a vaccination. In 2010 40.Millons need education and a safe haver for testing, hope for a therapy and vaccination.
Gallo`s blood test was available since 1984
1985
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Gallo enabled the use of the blood-test. This saved many lifes, Honory Doctorate University of Hamburg |
1990
Moskau: Ovchonikov lecture
2003
Aids Congress Hamburg: Opening Lecture
2006
Reflections on HIV/AIDS research
2007
Aids epidemic update UNAIDS World Health Organisation
Number of people living with HIV in 2005
Total 40.3 million (36.7–45.3 million)
- Adults 38.0 million (34.5–42.6 million)
- Women 17.5 million (16.2–19.3 million)
- Children under 15 years 2.3 million ( 2.1–2.8 million)
People newly infected with HIV in 2005
- Total 4.9 million ( 4.3–6.6 million)
- Adults 4.2 million ( 3.6–5.8 million)
- Children under 15 years 700 000 (630 000–820 000)
AIDS deaths in 2005
- Total 3.1 million (2.8–3.6 million)
- Adults 2.6 million (2.3–2.9 million)
- Children under 15 years 570 000 (510 000–670 000)
2008
Apocalyptic Rider and prevention, Black Death and Aids
2009
2010
nonindustrialized Nations need education and a “Safe Haven” for testing and 40. Milliones waiting for a therapy and hope for Vaccination
January 2011
August 2010
Rolf Neth
July 2010
June 2010
Playground
Look for Help
Ludwig Wittgenstein, "On Certainty" - "Über Gewissheit"
670. We might speak of fundamental principles of human enquiry...
670. Man könnte von Grundprinzipien der menschlichen Forschung reden..
671. But for all that - even if they trust me - they might believe I had been dreaming or that "magic" had made me imagine it.
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I cannot seriously suppose that I am at this moment dreaming.
671. Dabei könnten Sie aber -auch wenn sie mir trauen-glauben, ich habe geträumt oder ein Zauber habe mir das eingebildet...
Ich kann nicht im Ernst annehmen, ich träume jetzt.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 27. April 1951,
On Certainty - "Über Gewissheit" 1969,1975 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Max Planck: The origin and impact of scientific ideas
- Max Planck: Vortrag "Sinn und Grenzen der exakten Wissenschaft." (28. März 1947)
“Wem es vergönnt ist, an dem Aufbau der exakten Wissenschaft mitzuarbeiten, der wird mit unserem großen deutschen Dichter sein Genügen und sein innerliches Glück finden in dem Bewusstsein, das Erforschliche erforscht zu haben, und das Unerforschliche ruhig zu verehren”.
Memories in and around Wilsede
allow me please to ask for personal help.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) and Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) recognised that light is also an electromagnetic wave movment in space. Their inspiration was not hope of profit, but rather the dream of a new freedom, this hope we share. For this to be successful in the Wilsede Portal http://www.Science-Connections.com we look for help - in terms of both personal, academic information and, at a modest level, financially.
Rolf Neth, June 2010
May 2010
Leukemia 23: 2189-2196; doi:10.1038/leu.2009.132, Dec 2009
We thank for help
Nicole Killmann
Visit Leukemia - The Journal of Normal and Malignant Hemopoiesis
April 2010
Thomas Büchner Treatment of acute myeloid leukemia Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Lecture, St. Petersburg 2009
Dietger Niederwieser Stem Cell Transplantation: Past Present and Future St. Petersburg 2009
March 2010
AUTOLOGOUS MARROW AND BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION Proceedings of International Symposia, Arlington, Texas
February 2010
Leukemia (2009) 23, 2189–2196; doi:10.1038/leu.2009.132
January 2010
Axel Zander, Rolf Neth
Joint EBMT Pediatric Working Party – 3rd Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Meeting on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 17–20, 2009 Cellular Therapy and Transplantation ISSN 1866-8836 Volume 2, Number 5
Find video talks here
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
Fritz Anders: A friend and a scientist, text by Robert Gallo
Evolution of Peace
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Alfred Nobel
copyright: The Nobel Foundation
Illustration made by Immanuel Nobel on how ships are blasted with mines, here being demonstrated in his presence and that of the Tsar of Russia.
In his last will, signed on November 27, 1895, we find the well-known prize formulation "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the aboliton or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Alfred Nobel promptly informed Bertha von Suttner of his decision, and she expressed her delight: "Whether I am around then or not does not matter; what we have given, you and I, is going to live on."
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Bertha von Suttner
Also in 1892 she promised Alfred Nobel to keep him informed on the progress of the peace movement and, if possible, to convince him of its effectiveness. No doubt she felt that she was beginning to succeed when she received a letter from him in January of 1893, telling her about a peace prize he hoped to found, one which, after his death in 1896, his will showed he had indeed established
copyright: The Nobel Foundation
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Max Planck
Perhaps the most famous Solvay conference was the October 1927, where the world's most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory.
The leading figures were Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle," remarked "God does not play dice." Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines.
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Barack Obama in Kairo (4. Juni 2009), Prag (5. April 2009)
Obama Speech In Cairo: Full Text
- Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch playing in Berlin 1989, at the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- Hiroshima Child by Nazim Hikmet
We have a vision. - MLL
The responsibility for leukemia patients is the center of our activities. With our optimized diagnostic program we help improving both life expectancy and quality of life.
September 2009
Raisa Gorbacheva Third Memorial Meeting on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Video Talks: Joint EBMT Pediatric Working Party - St. Petersburg, Russia, September 17–20, 200Bei DFG Science TV finden Sie Antworten: Nach der erfolgreichen ersten Staffel dokumentieren ab dem 16. Juni 2009 wieder zehn ausgewählte Forscherteams bei DFG Science TV mehrere Monate lang ihre Arbeit mit der Kamera. In dreiminütigen Kurzfilmen erzählen die von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler vom Alltag.
Neth, Rolf-Dietmar "Kinderleukämie in der Elbmarsch: Plädoyer für sachliche Argumentation" Dtsch Arztebl 2009; 106(30): A-1499 / B-1282 / C-1250
August 2009
Publishers: World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore
July 2009
June 2009
Modern Trends in Human Leukemiafind all books representing Wilsede Congress from 1973 - 1990 here |
Childhood LeukemiaBlog with:
and the Wilsede Club |
Dan David Prize for Robert C. GalloFurther information on Robert Gallo |
Unsung Hero Robert C. GalloScience 9 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5911, pp. 206 - 207 |
From Black Death to Aids: Epidemics and theirÄ°mpact on CultureDr. Pirofski delivered a dynamic lecture that linked a particular event in medieval history the Black Plague -- with the way cultures react to pandemics. |
Glasperlenspiele in WilsedeMusic and Genes mit Dennis Busby, Egon Degens, Susomo Ohno |
Science in Wilsede asks for Social Balance
February 2009
January 2009
November 2008
Virus and Human Cancer in Wilsede from 1973 - 1987
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Bob Gallo:
- "Human T -Cell Leukemia-Lymphoma Virus (HTLV): A Progress Report" 1983
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George Klein
- "The Relative Role of Viral Transformation and Specific Cytogenetic Changes in the Development of Murine and Human Lymphomas" 1981
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Harald zur Hausen
- "Viruses in Human Tumors" 1987
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Sol Spiegelman
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Donald Pinkel
September 2008
August 2008
35 Years of Wilsede: Past, Present, and Future
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July 2008
Wilsede Meeting 2008 - Impressions
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June 2008
Tim Hunt: "Getting in and out of mitosis" Talks and Discussions
Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Present Status and New Directions Thomas Büchner, MD PhD in Cellular Therapy and Transplantation Journal
Honor Lectures and Awards in Wilsede and Moscow
1973-2006 here: Fritz Anders, Robert Gallo, Mel Greaves, Harald zur Hausen, Henry Kaplan, Georg Klein, Av Mitchinson, Susumu Ohno, Don Pinkel, Janet Rowly, E. Donnall Thomas et al.May 2008
- Alexander Friedenstein
- Malcom Moore
- Michael Weidemann
Malcom Moore and Alexander Friedenstein
Bob Gallo, Frederic Stohlman, Gerd Gaedecke, Wolfram Ostertag, et al
- Dr. Gallo
- Dr. Hofschneider
- Dr. Hunt
- Dr. Hehlmann
- Dr. Ostertag
- Dr. Stohlmann and more
April 2008
Interview with: Mel Greaves
New Scientist Profile: Donald Pinkel
March 2008
Wilsede Meeting 2005
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New Scientist Profile: Harald zur Hausen
February 2008
Harvard faculty votes to post research online Megan Woolhouse
Case for Open Access Robert Darnton
Science for Kids and Students (pdf) Symposium Vienna, Jan 31 - Feb 2 2008 W. Neth E. Stunkat A Zander
Dezember 2007
November 2007
see also: Mit Zucker gegen Malaria
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
Marking the 50 th Anniversary of the British Society for Immunology Crystal-ball gazing - the future of immunological research viewed from the cutting edge
July 2007
An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress, Signed by 26 Nobel Prize Winners
June 2007
Congress: 22.06.-23.06. 2007
Introduction here
Minisymposion on the occasion of the 85th Birthday of Prof.Dr.rer.nat Hans Paulsen University Hamburg, Department of Chemistry
View the presentation here
May 2007
Virus and Human Cancer
Open Access Journal coming soon.
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Onkologisches Zentrum Klinik für Stammzelltransplantation: Frau Prof. Dr. Nina Drize Haematological Scientific Centre, Moscow Datum: Donnerstag, 15.02.2007 Zeit: 15.00 s.t. Ort: Konferenzraum Frauenklinik, Gebäude W10
View the presentation here (Quicktime movie).
Download the slides (pdf).