Welcome invitation

On behalf of the Local Organising Committee, it is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in this exciting event. Stockholm is sometimes called the “Venice of Scandinavia”, built on several islands and close to a wonderful archipelago that is easily reached by numerous steamers. In the city centre are several attractive museums, including the magnificent king´s ship Vasa that was elevated from the sea bed and preserved 333 years after its maiden trip capsizal. The city is also the “home” of the Nobel Prize, the medicine prize laureates being selected by the Nobel Assembly of the medical university Karolinska Institutet. Incidentally, 2010 is also the year when the Karolinska Institutet celebrates its bicentenary.

The venue of the meeting is the “Mässan” conference and exhibition centre that is reached in about 10 min with train from the city centre. The meeting will commence on the evening of September 20 with a Get-together event at the conference centre, and the official Opening Ceremony will take place the next morning, September 21. The meeting will end at lunchtime on September 24, with the Closing Ceremony followed by a Farewell Reception.

We hope that EASD 2010 will be a scientifically successful meeting in the friendly and welcoming city of Stockholm. We look forward to seeing you here in September 2010!

Claes-Göran Östenson