1. Ute Lewitzka is Senior Physician in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Dresden (Germany). Her primary research interests are studies examining suicidality in affective disorders, the long-term course of bipolar disorder and lithium. She received a research award from Dalhousie University Halifax (NS, Canada) to work on a longitudinal prospective study of the offspring of well-characterized bipolar parents.