Keynote Lectures and Workshops

Infectious diseases and infant mortality in developing countries, civilization diseases and diseases of old age in the industrial countries.

Reducing infant mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases are three of the eight Millennium Development Goals the United Nations agreed upon. Achieving these goals will be decisive for the development of the world?s poorest countries. In the industrialized countries, however, "anti-aging" and "regenerative medicine" are keywords of an accelerated progress in experimental research and its applied therapeutic practice.

This might prompt the following questions: How can universal access to drugs be guaranteed? How do we deal with possible epidemics or pandemics that might arise because of global climate change? Which implications does high-tech medicine have for patients? Which answers do ethics offer modern medicine? How can the increasingly cost-intensive health system of the aging western societies be financed and managed?

Scientific Advisors:

Axel Haverich (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover)
Karl Lenhard Rudolph (Universität Ulm)