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Ulm trauma immunologist Markus Huber-Lang takes over international shock societies federation

Markus Huber-Lang, who heads a trauma immunology institute at Ulm University Hospital, has become president of the international federation that brings together nine shock societies.

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Why it matters: Ulm University Hospital's Institute of Clinical and Experimental Trauma Immunology now has its director at the head of a federation of nine shock societies.

Professor Markus Huber-Lang, a trauma researcher in Ulm, is the new president of the International Federation of Shock Societies, according to an announcement distributed via the idw press wire.

Huber-Lang leads the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Trauma Immunology at Ulm University Hospital and assumed the presidency at the federation's eleventh world congress in Las Vegas, United States.

The federation is a non-profit organisation that combines the work of nine shock societies.

The announcement states that his election demonstrates how strongly trauma research in Ulm is noticed internationally.

Editor’s view

Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor

The director of Ulm University Hospital's trauma immunology institute now presides over a non-profit federation of nine shock societies, having taken office at its eleventh world congress in Las Vegas.

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