Press Release

Contact: Susan Preston
(973) 972-7265

MEDIA ALERT

WHAT: Chemical and Biological Defense Conference
WHEN: March 21 and 22, 2003, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: International Center for Public Health
Norfolk and Warren Streets, Newark, N.J.

This conference is being sponsored by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-New Jersey Medical School Center for BioDefense and the departments of Medicine and Pharmacology and Physiology, the International Center for Public Health, and Department of Army, Fort Detrick, Maryland. The conference will focus on recent scientific data concerning the action of chemical and biological weapons, protection against them survival following exposure.

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