Events : Lecture details

Globalisation and infectious diseases; a threat and an opportunity for collaborative clinical science

LUMLEIAN - Professor J J Farrar OBE

Wednesday 10 December 2008

Venue: Newcastle upon Tyne

Location: Northern

Time: tbc

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