On 24/25 October 1994 I attended in Brussels a meeting of the drug-device-borderline issues working group of the European Commission. One of the subjects on the agenda was whether to classify hyaluronan containing products for medical use as drugs or as medical devices under the new European Medical Devices Directive 93/42/EEC (MDD). Pharmacia was interested … Continue reading Meeting Bandi
Category: Anecdotes
The Four Phases of Life
When time allows, I love to attend as a guest student lessons and seminars at the Philosophical University in Munich. I feel particularly attracted by the history of philosophy in various cultures, because this creates a sound basis for the understanding of people in different countries. In 2013, 2014 and 2015 I attended the seminars … Continue reading The Four Phases of Life
Wholism in Medicine – My Meetings with Dr. Wei-Kung Wang
Wholism (holism) is the idea that different parts are interconnected and cannot be understood without understanding the whole. In 1998 a Taiwanese friend from ITRI (the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Hsinchu) introduced me to Professor Wei-Kung Wang, a research fellow with the Biophysics Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, who had received … Continue reading Wholism in Medicine – My Meetings with Dr. Wei-Kung Wang
The History of in vitro Cytotoxicity Testing in Germany
When starting my own business in 1980 one of the first targets was to establish in vitro cytotoxicity testing of medical devices and materials intended to be used as part of medical devices. In my Munich environment I identified three institutes with expertise in mammalian cell culture, and established cooperation with each of them The Virology Department … Continue reading The History of in vitro Cytotoxicity Testing in Germany
Dr. Mueller-Lierheim 