Programme

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Outline of Sessions

Session 1 - Tissue homeostasis

• Thomas Weichhart (Vienna, Austria)
  Metabolic regulation of tissue homeostasis by macrophages
• Stefan Uderhardt (Erlangen, Germany)
  A tissue-level perspective on inflammation

Session 2 - Genetics and antibodies

• Matthew Brown (London, UK)
  Polygenic risk scores and rheumatology
• Caroline Grönwall (Stockholm, Sweden)
  Autoreactivity to protein modifications in rheumatoid arthritis

Session 3 - Epigenetics

• Esteban Ballestar (Barcelona, Spain)
  Epigenetics of inflammatory arthritis: Biological determinants and clinical applications
• Sarah Rice (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
  Methylation matters: Unravelling the OA epigenome

Session 4 - Innate immunity

• Chiara Romagnani (Berlin, Germany)
  Signatures of innate lymphoid cell activation and differentiation
• Leonhard Heinz (Vienna, Austria)
  The SLC15A4/TASL complex – A new element in the pathogenesis of SLE?

Session 5 - Regenerative medicine and senescence

• Johannes Grillari (Vienna, Austria)
  Tissue regeneration and aging: the senescence connection
• Danièle Noel (Montpellier, France)
  Targeting senescent cells in osteoarthritis: an innovative therapeutic approach

Session 6 - B cells and T cells

• Camilla Svensson (Stockholm, Sweden)
  Autoimmunity and neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia
• Achilleas Floudas (Dublin, Ireland)
  Synovial T cell polyfunctionality in inflammatory arthritis

Session 7 - Organ and tissue inflammation

• Ingrid Lundberg (Stockholm, Sweden)
  Myositis from bedside to bench, and back again
• Oliver Distler (Zürich, Switzerland)
  Recent advances in understanding pathogenesis and therapy of scleroderma

Session 8 - Joint degeneration and repair

• Liesbet Geris (Leuven, Belgium)
  An in silico perspective on osteoarthritis
• Aline Bozec (Erlangen, Germany)
  Amelioration of bone loss by resolution of inflammatory pathways in arthritis

Session 9 - Precision medicine and novel targets

• Christopher Buckley (Oxford, UK)
  The implications of the human cell atlas for targeting fibroblasts in immune mediated inflammatory diseases
• Diane van der Woude (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  The long and winding road from health to disease in rheumatoid arthritis

Keynote lectures

• Meinrad Busslinger (Vienna, Austria)
  Role of Pax5 in B cell development, immunity and disease
• Sasha Mendjan (Vienna, Austria)
  Cardioids reveal self-organizing principles of human cardiogenesis
• Costantino Pitzalis (London, UK)
  Molecular portraits of rheumatoid arthritis:
  Defining clinical and treatment response endotypes towards precision medicine

Meet our confirmed speakers for the EWRR 2022

• Esteban Ballestar
  Epigenetics and Immune Disease Group, Josep Carreras Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
• Aline Bozec
  Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Matthew Brown
  Genomics England, London; King’s College London, London, UK
• Chris Buckley
  Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford, UK
• Meinrad Busslinger
  Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
• Oliver Distler
  Department of Rheumatology, Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Achilleas Floudas
  Department of Molecular Rheumatology,Trinity College Biomedical Sciences Institute,Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
• Liesbet Geris
  GIGA in silico medicine, University of Liège; Skeletal Biology & Engineering Research Center, KU Leuven, Belgium.
• Johannes Grillari
  Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology, Vienna, Austria
• Caroline Grönwall
  Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Leonhard Heinz
  Division of Rheumatology - Department of Medicine 3 - Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Ingrid Lundberg
  Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Sasha Mendjan
  IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
• Daniele Noel
  Inserm U1183, Clinical Immunology and Osteoarticular Disease Therapeutic Unit, Department of Rheumatology, CHU Montpellier, France
• Costantino Pitzalis
  Centre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology, Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Sarah Rice
  Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
• Chiara Romagnani
  German Rheumatism Research Centre-a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany
• Camilla Svensson
  Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Stefan Uderhardt
  Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Thomas Weichhart
  Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Diane van der Woude
  Department of Reumatology - Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands