Editorial

Initiative on #4openScienceStandsForUkraine scientists and students

¹ Theodor-Billroth-Academy®, Germany, USA
² INCORE, International Consortium of Research Excellence of the Theodor-Billroth-Academy®, Germany, USA
³ Department of Surgery, Carl-Thiem-Klinikum, Cottbus, Germany
⁴ Neurogenetics, Institute of Zoology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
⁵ Department 4, Genetic Engineering and other Biotechnological Processes, Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Berlin, Germany
⁶ Genomic Medicine, Office of Research & Development, Washington, DC, USA
⁷ Precision Medicine Unit, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
⁸ Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
⁹ Department of Surgery, “Elias” Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
¹⁰ Klinikum Großhadern, Munich, Germany
¹¹ Heinz-Nixdorf-Chair of Biomedical Electronics, TranslaTUM, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, TU Munich, Munich, Germany
¹² Institute for Sport Sciences, University of the German Army, Neubiberg, Germany
¹³ Orthopedic Department, Vila Velha Hospital, Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil
¹⁴ Department of General, GI and Thoracic Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Klinikum Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
¹⁵ Department of Surgery, Metropolitan Hospital, Panama City, Panama
¹⁶ Department of Nephrology and Diabetology, Carl-Thiem-Klinikum, Cottbus, Germany
¹⁷ Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Neustadt am Rübenberge, Germany
¹⁸ Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology Department, Greater Poland Cancer Centre, Poznan, Poland
¹⁹ BrainScanology Inc., Dublin, CA, USA
²⁰ Tissue Spatial Geometrics Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA
²¹ Surgical Oncology Department, Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Portugal
²² Assia Medical Group, Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
²³ Department of Surgery, Ankara Numune Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
²⁴ Surgical Oncology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
²⁵ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istituto Clinico Humanitas CCO, Catania, Italy
²⁶ Business School Lausanne – BSL, Lausanne, Switzerland
²⁷ Medical Faculty, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
²⁸ Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
²⁹ Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
³⁰ Competence Center “Visual Healthcare Technologies”, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany
³¹ Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
³² Cancer Institute, Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
³³ Department of Surgery No. 2, National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
³⁴ National Institute of Health Ricardo Jorge, Porto, Portugal
³⁵ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, St. Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy
³⁶ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Midwestern University, College of Pharmacy, Glendale, AZ, USA
³⁷ Department of Surgery, Hospital General San Juan de Dios, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Calle, Guatemala
³⁸ Department of Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Rasool-e Akram Hospital, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
³⁹ Surgical Oncology, HPB and Liver Transplantation, Ecuadorian Cancer Institute, Quito, Ecuador
⁴⁰ Department of Cancer Stem Cell Engineering, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
⁴¹ University College London, London, UK
⁴² Aeonian Biotech, Leiden, Netherlands
⁴³ Department of General Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
⁴⁴ Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
⁴⁵ Institute of Biotechnology, BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg, Senftenberg, Germany
⁴⁶ Hematology and Oncology for Cottbus and Southern Brandenburg, Cottbus, Germany
⁴⁷ Department of Biochemistry, Charite – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
⁴⁸ Colorectal Surgical Oncology, Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei Tumori, Fondazione Giovanni Pascale IRCCS-Italia, Naples, Italy
⁴⁹ Department of General, Gastrointestinal Surgery and Surgical Oncology of the Digestive Tract. Medical University of Lublin, Poland
⁵⁰ Department of General Surgery and Shock Trauma Unit, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel
⁵¹ Medical Informatics and Data Analysis Research Group, University of Oulu, Finland
⁵² Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
⁵³ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
⁵⁴ Sylvia Lawry Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research e.V. – The Human Motion Institute, Munich, Germany
⁵⁵ Institute of Sport Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
⁵⁶ Department of Surgery, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil
⁵⁷ Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines
⁵⁸ New Liberty Proteomics Corporation, New Liberty, KY, USA
⁵⁹ Association for Training in Biomedical Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece
⁶⁰ Department of Surgery, UK Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
⁶¹ Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
⁶² Risk-Based Decisions Inc., Sacramento, CA, USA

^* Corresponding author: b-bruecher@gmx.de

Received: 10 March 2022
Accepted: 10 March 2022

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