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After having welcomed all members, the President reported on the deaths of three EASD members, Drs. H. Sauer, J.C.Sodoyez and R Stolba, the latter one had been a member of the Local Organising Committee 1992 and of this year's Abstract Selection Committee. The General Assembly stood in silence in their memory.
The President asked the General Assembly for approval of the Minutes of the 29th General Assembly, Istanbul, 1993, before the minutes were signed by himself and Dr. de Leiva as a correct record.
a) President: Dr. Alberti started his report by thanking Drs. N.Bagriacik, H.Ilkova and Ms S.Bagriacik for the remarkable Annual Meeting they had organized in 1993. He expressed his thanks to Hoe&st AG, Gemany, for sponsoring the Minkowski Prize, which had this year been awarded to Dr. T.Mandrup-Poulsen from Denmark. The Camillo Golgi Lecture, this year delivered by Dr. J.E. Tooke from United Kingdom, and the Castelli Pedroli Prize, were sponsored by the family of the late Maria Castelli Pedroti. Thanks were expressed to Eli Lilly who had sponsored the 3rd Eli Lilly/ EASD Research Fellowship which had been awarded to A.Sj6holm from Sweden and to Hoechst, France, (Laboratoires Paul Neumann) who had sponsored the Claude Bernard Lecturer 1994; Dr. G. Reaven will give his lecture on the last day of the Annual Meeting. The President thanked all Supporting and Associate Members for their continued support and especially Eli Lilly for their sponsorship towards the EASD Solidarity Fund and Novo Nordisk for their continued support of the EASD Travel Grants.
Dr. Alberti reported on the new EASD activities, e.g. the Meet-the-Expert Sessions, introduced at this EASD Meeting and the 2nd Scientist Training Course which wilt be held in May 1995. He also announced a Training Course for Nurses which is planned for the end of 1995. Reporting on new approaches, Dr. AIberti informed the General Assembly of a new Travel Fellowship which will be announced in the EASD News Section in December 1994. Four of the eight fellowships will be sponsored by Bayer AG, the other half is paid by the EASD. Another new approach will be the 'Oxford Course', later in 1995 which is jointly organized by the EASD and JDFI. This course should bring together senior and junior members and is a result of new contacts with the JDFI. Dr. Alberti explained that these new activities represent the recent approaches of the EASD to promote more intensively diabetes research and also to put more effort into the study of diabetes.
Then the President informed the General Assembly that the Claude-Bernard-Committee had met in September 1994 and unanimously decided to award Dr. M.Berger from Dtisseldorf as Claude Bernard Lecturer 1995.
As a last matter Dr. Alberti reported that the Executive Committee Members had decided to host the EASD Annual Meeting in Jerusalem in the year 2000. Applications to organize the Annual Meeting in the year 2001 are welcome, an announcement will be printed in the EASD News Section in December 1994.
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