2026 Lisbon
6th Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM)
The 6th Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM 2026) was held in Lisbon, Portugal on 23 – 66 March 2026 at Lisbon Conference Center. The conference was organized as a hybrid meeting, i.e. with the possibility of on-site attendance or with virtual participation using simultaneous online streaming. This was to enable to take part in the conference also to those who will not be able to come personally.
Main topics included the following areas:
- IIM Pathophysiology
- Classification and Epidemiology of Myositis
- A Clinical Perspective: from Presentation to Management
- Clinical Trials in Myositis
- Diagnosing Myositis
- Juvenile Myositis
- Cancer and Myositis
- Environmental-induced Myositis
- Building a Myositis Research Commity: The Intersection of Patient Voices and Scientific Discovery
- Future Treatments for Myositis
Steering Committee
Anneke van der Kooi iMyoS
Jens Schmidt iMyoS
Silke Schlüter iMyoS
Karen Cheng iMyoS
Dana Ascherman Past Meeting Chair
Ingrid Lundberg Past Meeting Chair
Jiri Vencovsky Past Meeting Chair
Raquel Marques Local Organizer
Sofia Barreira Local Organizer
Eduardo Dourado Local Organizer
Ana Teresa Freire De Melo Local Organizer
Local organizing committee
Raquel Marques
Ana Teresa Freire De Melo
Eduardo Dourado
Sofia Barreira
João Eurico Fonseca
Scientific committee
Masa Kuwana
Ignacio García-De La Torre
Yves Allenbach
Hector Chinoy
Lisa Christopher-Stine
Rob Hallowell
Ruth Vleugels
Dave Fiorentino
Greenberg Steven
Danoff Sonye
Miller Fred
Erin Wilfong
Aggarwal Rohit
Dimachkie Mazen
Katharina Shaw
Dana Ascherman
Marianne de Visser
Ingrid Lundberg
Ichizo Nishino
Jens Schmidt
Albert Selva O‘ Callagan
Conrad Weihl
Tahseen Mozaffar
Mary Hudson
Siamak Moghadam-Kia
Rider Lisa
Huber Adam
Nagaraju Kanneboyina
Didem Saygin
Annet van Royen
Jiří Vencovský
Guochun Wang
Lucy Wedderburn
Namita Goyal
Elie Naddaf
Anthony Amato
Victoria Werth
Janine Lamb
Vladimir Liarski
Chet Oddis
Tom Lloyd