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