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Welcome and Opening of the Congress

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On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Organizing Committee I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all those attending the 4th Congress of the International Society of Ocular Toxicology (ISOT) and thank you all for coming to this beautiful, historic town of Annecy, and to the marvellous congress center of the Fondation Marcel Merieux, here in Veyrier du Lac.

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  1. Department of Experimental Pathology and Toxicology, Boehringer Ingelheim KG, D-55218, Ingelheim/Rh, Germany

    Ingo Weisse

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  1. Boehringer Ingelheim KG, Ingelheim, Germany

    Ingo Weisse

  2. University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Otto Hockwin

  3. Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA

    Keith Green

  4. South Carolina Eye Institute, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

    Ramesh C. Tripathi

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Weisse, I. (1995). Welcome and Opening of the Congress. In: Weisse, I., Hockwin, O., Green, K., Tripathi, R.C. (eds) Ocular Toxicology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1887-7_1

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