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              <b>Open letter to the international scientific biophysics
                community</b></div>
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            <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Dear
              colleague,</div>
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            <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">The
              attached letter explains some severe consequences for
              MEMPHYS-Center for Biomembrane Physics due to</div>
            <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">cut-backs
              at the Danish universities.</div>
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            <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">On behalf
              of MEMPHYS,</div>
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            <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Ole G.
              Mouritsen</div>
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              <div><font face="Didot" size="2">Professor Ole G.
                  Mouritsen PhD DSc FRSD</font></div>
              <div><font face="Didot" size="2">Director, MEMPHYS-Center
                  for Biomembrane Physics </font></div>
              <div><font face="Didot" size="2">Director,
                  TASTEforLIFE-Danish Center for Taste</font></div>
              <div><font face="Didot" size="2">President, Danish
                  Gastronomical Academy</font></div>
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              <div><font face="Didot" size="2">University of Southern
                  Denmark</font></div>
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                  face="Didot" size="2">Department of Physics, Chemistry
                  and Pharmacy</font></div>
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                  6550 3506</font></div>
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