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June 1, 2004
International Conference on SARS

From 8 to 11 May 2004 about 200 researchers met one year after first breaking out of the "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrom (SARS)" to a world-wide congress in Lübeck. Conference president was Professor Dr. rer. nat. Rolf Hilgenfeld, director of the institute for biochemistry of the university to Lübeck. The conference pointed out the current conditions of the study of the virus and the perspectives of its fight.