2024 Pittsburgh
5th Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM)
The 5th Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM 2024) was held in Pittsburgh (PA), USA on 13 – 16 March 2024 at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh. 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:
1. Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Myopathy
2. Therapeutic Advances
3. Genetic, Environmental Risk
4. Clinical Trials
5. Extra-Muscular Organ Involvement
6. Governance of Myositis Organizations
7. Cancer and Myositis
8. Funding Strategies
9. IBM
10. Mentoring – Buliding the Pipeline
11. Biomarkers & Imaging
12. Juvenile Myositis
Steering committee
Jens Schmidt – iMyoS – Germany
Anneke van der Kooi – iMyoS – the Netherlands
Peter Korsten – iMyoS – Germany
Silke Schlüter – iMyoS – Germany
Jiří Vencovský – Past Meeting Chair – Czech Republic
Ingrid Lundberg – Past Meeting Chair – Sweden
Dana Ascherman – Local Organizer – USA
Rohit Aggarwal – Local Organizer – USA
Chester Oddis – Local Organizers – USA
Local organizing committee
Victoria Werth
Erin Wilfong
Andrew Mammen
Chester Oddis
Didem Saygin
Vladimir Liarski
Siamak Moghadam-Kia
Rohit Aggarwal
Scientific committee
Rohit Aggarwal, USA
Yves Allenbach, France
Anthony Amato, USA
Dana Ascherman, USA
Olivier Benveniste, France
Hector Chinoy, UK
Lisa Christopher-Stine, USA
Sonye Danoff, USA
Marianne de Visser, the Netherlands
Mazen Dimachkie, USA
Andrea Doria, Canada
David Fiorentino, USA
Ignacio García-De La Torre, Mexico
Namita Goyal, USA
Steven Greenberg, USA
Robert Hallowell, USA
Adam Huber, USA
Mary Hudson, Canada
Masa Kuwana, Japan
David Lacomis, USA
Janine Lamb, UK
Vladimir Liarski, USA
Thomas Lloyd, USA
Ingrid Lundberg, Sweden
Susan Maillard, USA
Andrew Mammen, USA
Frederick Miller, USA
Siamak Moghadam-Kia, USA
Tahseen Mozaffar, USA
Elie Naddaf, USA
Kanneboyina Nagaraju, USA
Ichizo Nishino, Japan
Chester Oddis, USA
Lisa Rider, USA
Didem Saygin, USA
Jens Schmidt, Germany
Albert Selva O‘Callagan, Spain
Katharina Shaw, USA
Werner Stenzel,Germany
Annet van Royen, the Netherlands
Jiří Vencovský, Czech Republic
Ruth Vleugels, USA
Guochun Wang, China
Lucy Wedderburn, UK
Conrad C. Weihl, USA
Victoria Werth, USA
Erin Wilfong, USA