Advances in Scleroderma Research – Global Webinar
Leading Scleroderma Investigators Present Latest Advances – Virtual Global Forum
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.
Upcoming Events:
Advances in Scleroderma Research – Global Webinar
Friday, May 31, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. (Eastern Time U.S.A.)
Participation is free of charge and open to all interested scleroderma researchers, including trainees.
Speakers
Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D., University of Vermont
Oxidative modifications shape the extracellular matrix: relevance for pulmonary fibrosis
Dean Sheppard, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Lung fibroblast heterogeneity in health and disease
The Advances in Scleroderma Research Global Webinars are not recorded or offered on demand. We look forward to seeing you at the webinar.
Future Dates:
Sessions will be held quarterly. More details on the following sessions to come:
- September 2024
The program is organized by a steering committee of leading scleroderma researchers:
John Varga, MD (USA), Co-Chair
Carol Feghali-Bostwick, PhD (USA), Co-Chair
Richard M. Silver, MD (USA)
David Abraham, PhD (UK)
Chris Denton, MD, PhD (UK)
Jorg Distler, MD (Germany)
Pravitt Gourh, MD (USA)
Masataka Kuwana, MD, PhD (Japan)
Alain Lescoat, MD (France)
Steven O’Reilly, PhD (Denmark)
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD (USA)
Eliza Tsou, PhD (USA)
Michael Whitfield, PhD (USA)
Qingran Yan, MD, PhD (China)
Past speakers have included:
March, 2024 Webinar:
Linde Meyaard, Ph.D., University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Gisela Orozco, Ph.D., The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
December, 2023 Webinar:
Carol M. Artlett, Ph.D., Drexel University
Ian Odell, M.D., Ph.D., FAAD, Yale University
September, 2023 Webinar:
Lori Broderick, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Yuval Rinkevich, Ph.D., Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany
March, 2023 Webinar:
Christian Stockmann, M.D., Institute of Anatomy, University of Zürich
Michael Rosenblum M.D., Ph.D., University of California San Francisco
Joel Rurik, University of Pennsylvania
December, 2022 Webinar:
Veena Antony, M.D., The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Daniel Tschumperlin, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Sara Zanivan, Ph.D., University of Glasgow School of Cancer Sciences, CRUK Beatson Institute
April, 2022 Webinar:
Ido Amit, PhD, and Chamutal Gur, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science
Paul Hiebert, PhD, ETH Zürich
Victor J. Thannickal, MD, Tulane University
December, 2021 Webinar:
Robert Lafyatis, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Marlene Rabinovitch, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
Stuart Cook, MBBS, MRCP, PhD, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School
September, 2021 Webinar:
Jim Jarvis, MD, University at Buffalo
Michael T. Longaker, MD, MBA, DSc (hon) FACS, Stanford University
Boris Hinz, PhD, University of Toronto
The Advances in Scleroderma Research – Global Webinar is fully supported by the National Scleroderma Foundation.