Global Webinar: Advances in Scleroderma Research

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.

Date: Friday, December 18, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET
Registration:  Please click here to register in advance.

Speakers:
Christian Stockmann, PhD – Selective Immunotherapeutic Targeting of the Fibrotic Niche Christian Stockmann
Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD – RNA Drug TY1 Reverses Scleroderma: Poised for Translation 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. Learn more about the Global Webinar series and other Foundation research opportunities: Global Webinar – National Scleroderma Foundation

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.

Date: Friday, September 11, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET
Registration:  Please click here to register in advance.

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.

Learn more about the Global Webinar series and other Foundation research opportunities: Global Webinar – National Scleroderma Foundation

The National Scleroderma Foundation is proud to present the second Advances in Scleroderma Research Global Webinar of 2026!

Date: Friday, June 12, 2026

Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET

Presenters:

  • Kazuki M. Matsuda, MD, PhD: Autoantigenomic Analysis for Systemic Sclerosis Utilizing In Vitro Human Proteome
  • Harry Karmouty-Quintana, PhD, and Shervin Assassi, MD: The Adipocyte Switch: How SIX1 Regulates Lipolysis and Fibrosis

Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zDifmN8ERpGZfDnW-kIxCg

Advances in Scleroderma Research – Global Webinar

A series of virtual meetings open to the global community of scleroderma investigators.

A CD57+ CD8 T Cell Subset Links Cytotoxic T Cell Function to Fibrotic Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis – Takanori Sasaki, MD, PhD, Keio University
Arginase-1–Derived Ornithine Drives Collagen Synthesis in Lung Fibrosis – Mallar Bhattacharya, MD, University of California, San Francisco

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Advances in Scleroderma Research – Global Webinar

A series of virtual meetings open to the global community of scleroderma investigators.

There will be two presentations:

  • (Circadian) Regulation of Collagen-I – New Tools and Insights – Joan Chang, PhD, FHEA, The University of Manchester
  • Local Photo-Crosslinking of Native Lung Tissue Matrices to Mimic Early Fibrotic Remodeling – Claudia Loebel, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

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