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The Voyage to Medicines Safety

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The Professor hadn’t expected to find himself on board a ferry crossing the Baltic Sea. Less than three weeks before, he’d started a new job at a small scientific centre in the attractive university city of Uppsala in central Sweden—and now he stood high above the calm, sparkling water on the promenade deck of a sizeable and well-appointed passenger ship, as it slipped between the islands and islets of the Stockholm archipelago on a bright morning in early October 1990.

‘I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.’

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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Hembrow, I. (2023). The Voyage to Medicines Safety. In: Ralph Edwards: RARE EVENTS. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14981-8_2

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