Spotlight on Science Meetings, Conferences and Events brings you information on the following event: 13th International Conference on Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders
The conference will provide a forum for basic scientists and clinical researchers to discuss, disseminate, and highlight the advances and challenges of therapies for myasthenia gravis.
Program Objectives:
- Provide a forum for basic, translational, and clinical researchers from academia and industry to present and discuss the most up-to-date findings in MG research
- Explore and encourage multidisciplinary and multi-sector collaborations to enhance investigative approaches into MG and related autoimmune and neuromuscular disorders
- Review current MG therapeutic options, ongoing clinical trials, and challenges and limitations faced in the clinic
- Identify knowledge gaps and future directions of research required for further breakthroughs.
Plenary Sessions Include:
- Bench to bedside, including structure and function of the neuromuscular junction
- Advances in immunology
- Recent clinical developments related to MG
- Outcome measurements
- Clinical trial development
- Animal models of neuromuscular disease
- MG treatment updates
- Congenital and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndromes
- Thymectomy
- MGTX trial.
The New York Academy of Sciences
New York City, NY
Phone: (212)298-8600
http://www.nyas.org/Events/Detail.aspx?cid=0758b61f-ec5c-4051-8903-e6a8732fc0df
Monday, May 15, 2017 to Wednesday, May 17, 2017