Advances in Scleroderma Research Global Webinar
Next Meeting: June 12, 2026
9:00 a.m. ET
Participation is free of charge and open to all interested scleroderma researchers, including trainees.
The Advances in Scleroderma Research Global Webinars are not recorded or offered on demand. We look forward to seeing you at the webinar.
About the Global Webinar
Advances in Scleroderma Research – Global Webinar is a series of virtual meetings open to the global community of scleroderma researchers. This virtual forum provides a venue to bring together the global scleroderma research community to hear the latest breakthroughs from the field. Each session will feature recent discoveries and high impact publications related to all aspects of scleroderma science.
Purpose
The purpose of this webinar is to provide the most exciting and recent research advances to the global scleroderma research community in real time. It is vital that we take advantage of the facility we all gained with virtual meetings and virtual information sharing during the pandemic.
Goal
The goal of the Advances in Scleroderma Research – Global Webinar is to rapidly disseminate knowledge by promoting awareness of new advances, fostering new collaborations, creating new networks, encouraging early-stage investigators, and inspiring interested learners.
Previous sessions were exceptionally successful with over 300 people from around the globe registered for each event.
Previous Webinars
Friday, March 20, 2026: Leading Scleroderma Investigators Present Latest Advances – Virtual Global Forum
Speaker Information
Takanori Sasaki, MD, PhD, Keio University – A CD57+ CD8 T Cell Subset Links Cytotoxic T Cell Function to Fibrotic Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis
Mallar Bhattacharya, MD, University of California, San Francisco – Arginase-1–Derived Ornithine Drives Collagen Synthesis in Lung Fibrosis
Friday, December 12, 2026: Leading Scleroderma Investigators Present Latest Advances – Virtual Global Forum
Speaker Information
Joan Chang, PhD, FHEA, The University of Manchester – (Circadian) Regulation of Collagen-I – New Tools and Insights
Claudia Loebel, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania – Local Photo-Crosslinking of Native Lung Tissue Matrices to Mimic Early Fibrotic Remodeling
Friday, September 9, 2025: Leading Scleroderma Investigators Present Latest Advances – Virtual Global Forum
Speaker Information
Satish K. Madala, PhD – Decoding Fibroblast Heterogeneity and Pathogenic Roles in Distal Lung Fibrosis
Jörg Distler, PhD – Targeting WNT5A in SSc
Friday, May 9, 2025: Leading Scleroderma Investigators Present Latest Advances – Virtual Global Forum
Speaker Information
Paul Wolters, M.D. & Monica Yang, M.D. – Aberrant aging and senescence in scleroderma associated interstitial lung disease.
Pravitt Gourh, M.D. – A Genomic Approach to Disease Classification: Adventures in Systemic Sclerosis.
Friday, March 14, 2025: Leading Scleroderma Investigators Present Latest Advances – Virtual Global Forum
Speaker Information
Johann E. Gudjonsson, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan
New insights into mechanisms of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis
Franck J. Barrat, Ph.D., The Hospital for Special Surgery
Modulation of innate cells activation in tissue promotes fibrosis