553:"On the day of the accident, Prof Newsom-Davis had visited a neurological clinic in Bucharest where he intended to start a study about early thymectomy in MG patients (according to Dr Ioana Mindruta, the clinician involved in the study).She told me that everybody was so excited about this collaboration, so much hope for us the patients... but once more we were so unlucky, ...we lost a father too... Ioana told me that the professor and his wife just left the clinic and went to a trip to see the ancient painted monasteries in Moldavia ...then was the tragedy. It's awful." (
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745:"Award of ABN Medal"
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1116:Kenneth John Packer
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