Dear friends and colleagues, We are very much delighted to announce the 9th Scientific Symposium on Clinical Needs, Research Promises and Technical Solutions in Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance, which will be held on Friday, September 14th 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Please save the date. Goals and Objectives The symposium is from the community for the community. It is designed to provide an overview of state-of-the-art (pre)clinical ultrahigh field (UHF) MR, to discuss the clinical relevance of UHF MR, to explore future directions of UHF MR, to foster explorations into ultrahigh field MR and to initiate local, regional, national and international collaboration and last but not least to provide plenty of time to engage into fruitful exchange with your peers and colleagues. The symposium is tailored to attract basic scientists, engineers, hardware professionals, translational researchers, clinical scientists, applied scientists and clinicians with all levels of experience and expertise ranging from undergraduate and graduate students interested in imaging to trainees, advanced users and applications experts. Scientific Program The scientific program comprises 4 sessions, all balancing technical developments and clinical applications. We are very much honored to present extraordinary (inter)national speakers including MR technology leaders and distinguished clinical experts, all bridging disciplinary boundaries and stimulating the imaging community to throw further weight behind the solution of unsolved problems and unmet clinical needs. Poster Session and Poster Power Presentations The scientific program will be paralleled by a poster session. We wish to encourage those of you who are prepared to walk the extra mileage. The best posters will be rewarded with a poster award. Thanks to the communities valuable feedback we have also included 15 slots of 3 min poster power presentations in the program. This will give a large number of poster presenters the opportunity to be in the enlightening spotlight of the audience. We are eagerly looking forward to your poster contributions. Technical Exhibition and Social Event The symposium will be supplemented by a technical exhibition, by an open day of the Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.) as well as a social event. Professional Child Care On a special note; many of us know first-hand how challenging it can be to balance the needs of our families with the mission to advance science. To this end we are very pleased to offer professional child care for the course of the symposium and the social event. Please do not hesitate to contact us so that we can provide further details. Be Berlin We warmly invite you to join us for the 9th Annual Scientific Symposium on Ultrahigh Field MR on Septmember 14th 2018 in Berlin. Please save the date. A visit to Berlin is always worth it. Alongside MR science, Berlin has numerous historical landmarks, cultural highlights and sport events to offer. For those of you who are courageous (or kind of crazy) enough please be advised that the 44th Berlin Marathon will be held on September 16th 2018. Be Berlin. Thoralf Niendorf - MDC & Charité, Berlin Jeanette Schulz-Menger - Charité, Berlin Sebastian Schmitter - PTB, Berlin Sonia Waiczies - MDC, Berlin Min-Chi Ku - MDC, Berlin Andreas Pohlmann - MDC, Berlin