2017 Potomac
2nd Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM)
NIEHS scientists helped organize the 2nd Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM 2017), which brought together myositis researchers, patients, and support group representatives from around the world. Fred Miller, M.D., Ph.D., head of the NIEHS Environmental Autoimmunity Group (EAG), chaired the steering and scientific committees for the event, which took place May 5-8 at the Bolger Center in Potomac, Maryland.
GCOM 2017 attracted 310 participants from 22 countries on five continents.
Main topics included the following areas:
- Risk Factors and Prevention
- Immunology and Autoantibodies
- Pathology and Biomarkers
- Pathology and Biomarkers
- Pathogenesis
- Prognosis
- Outcome assessment
- Novel therapies
- The Way Forward
- Research priorities for Phenotypes
- Repositories, collaborations and beyond
Meeting Abstracts
Steering Committee
Lisa Christopher-Stine – USA
Linda Kobert – USA
Hitoshi Kohsaka – Japan
Ingrid Lundberg – Sweden
Andrew Mammen – USA
Annie Mitchell – USA
Kanneboyina Nagaraju – USA
Ann Reed – USA
Lisa Rider – USA
Victoria Werth – USA
Guochun Wang – China
Local Organizing Committee
Dana Ascherman
Kevin Brown
Robert Cooper
Mazen Dimachkie
David Fiorentino
Bob Goldberg
Todd Levine
Shannon Malloy
Tahseen Mozaffar
Chester Oddis
Victoria Werth
Scientific Committee
Rohit Aggarwal – USA
Anthony Amato – USA
Dana Ascherman – USA
Olivier Benveniste – France
Sonye Danoff – USA
David Fiorentino – USA
Steve Greenberg – USA
Adam Huber – USA
Hitoshi Kohsaka – Japan
Ingrid Lundberg – Sweden
Pedro Machado – UK
Andrew Mammen – USA
Kanneboyina Nagaraju – USA
Werner Stenzel – Germany
Jiri Vencovsky – Czech Republic
Guochun Wang – China
Lucy Wedderburn – UK