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Professor of Microbiology and Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ulm

Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Medical Faculty of the University of Ulm, I welcome you to the convention centre at Schloss Reisensburg. This Workshop was convened by Professor Fliedner as the Director of the Radiation Medicine Research Group of the Faculty of Medicine, which carries the scientific responsibility for the "WHO Collaborating Center for Radiation Accident Management", an activity that Professor Fliedner continued after he retired in 1997 from the Chair of Clinical Physiology and Occupational Medicine.

The Faculty of Medicine has supported these internationally recognised research and teaching activities in the field of radiation medicine, which were supported until now by the European Communities (EURATOM program) and several Federal Ministries in Germany, including the Ministry of Defense, which is the major sponsor of this Workshop.

The programme of the Workshop is of major interest to all medical persons who may be called upon to manage radiation accident victims clinically. Such accidents can occur in nuclear facilities but also in all countries and locations where radioactive material and radioactive sources are being used for medical, industrial or military purposes: they may become lost, they may be stolen or used for terrorist purposes or be handled in ignorance (as experienced in the last decade). The Workshop will hopefully find answers to the question regarding the mechanisms at the organ, cell or molecular level resulting in complex radiation syndromes in order to improve diagnostic tools and therapeutic approaches.

The Faculty of Medicine welcomes all participants representing the competence centres in the field in Europe, USA, China, Japan (which is essentially from all over the world) and hopes that it will be successful and eventually published in the scientific literature.

As the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine – your hosting institution – I declare this Workshop opened.

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