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MIRCEN/Stockholm is a component of both a UNEP/UNESCO/ICRO network of laboratories doing research aimed at problems of developing countries and the International Organization for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (IOBB). At the time, it was also a part of the WAAS World University project.
Mr. Balson is supported by a Canadian planning group with Professor M. Moo-Young, at the University of Waterloo, as moderator and Dr. J. Black, librarian at the University of Guelph, as rapporteur (network manager). For information about communication routines, including a list of telephone, telex, and computer access codes, please contact Mr. D. Balson, Information Sciences Division, International Development Research Centre, 60 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ont. K1G 3H9, Canada; phone (613) 996-2321, ext. 357: Telex: 053-3753 (IDRG RECENTRE).
The moderator of the Scandinavian planning group is Professor K. E. Eriksson (Swedish Paper and Pulp Re search Institute), and the rapporteur is Dr. J. Palme (The Systems Group, Stockholm University Computing Center-QZ, 102 54 Stockholm, Sweden. Telex: 10366-S.)
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Carl-Göran Hedén, M.D., Ph.D., H.C., is head of the UNEP/UNESCO/ICRO Microbiological Resource Center (MIRCEN) and professor of microbiological engineering at the Karolinska Institutet, S-104 01, Stockholm 60, Sweden.
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Hedén, CG. New Mechanisms for International Research Cooperation in Biotechnology. Nat Biotechnol 1, 770–773 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1183-770
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