The International Congress on Neuromuscular Diseases (ICNMD) was held in Brussels from 5 to 9 July 2022. The Institute of Myology was very well represented, both in terms of clinical and fundamental research. Prof. Bertrand Fontaine, Dr. Giorgia Querin as well as Marc Bitoun and Piera Smeriglio, team leaders at the Institute’s Myology Research Centre, chaired sessions and presented oral communications. Prof. Olivier Benveniste, Dr. Guillaume Bassez and Dr. Teresinha Evangelista also gave presentations. Finally, our researchers, Delphine Trochet, Saline Jabre and Julia Lemos also had the opportunity to present their work. Julia Lemos was selected for the best oral presentation award ceremony.
Interventions by the Institute’s clinicians and researchers
Tuesday 5th July
Teresinha Evangelista: Myopathology in Congenital Myopathies (Morphological Aspects in Neuromuscular Diseases session)
Olivier Benveniste: Treatment Options for IIM (Update on Inflammatory Myopathies session)
Karim Wahbi: Heart Involvement (Clinical Manifestations of Myopathies – Other than Limb Weakness session)
Wednesday 6th July
Bertrand Fontaine, chairman of the Muscle Channelopathies: From Bench to Bedside session: « Treatments of channelopathies »
Marc Bitoun, chairman of the Recent developments in Therapies for Centronuclear Myopathies session: « Pathophysiological Mechanisms in the Dominant Centronuclear Myopathy Due to Dynamin 2 Mutations »
Delphine Trochet : « Allele specific therapy for the Dynamin 2-linked Dominant Centronuclear Myopathy » (Recent developments in Therapies for Centronuclear Myopathies session)
Guillaume Bassez : « Metformin: a Repurposed Drug for Myotonic Dystrophy » (Drug Repurposing to Accelerate Therapeutic Development in Neuromuscular Disorders session)
Thursday 7th July
Guillaume Bassez: « DM Scope Registry: Classifying myotonic disorders to improve diagnosis » (Channelling the myotonia diagnosis session)
Piera Smeriglio chairman of the Biomarkers in Spinal Muscular Atrophy and other Neurodegenerative Diseases session: « Neurofilaments and Other Molecular Biomarkers in Treated SMA Patients »
Giorgia Querin: « Imaging Biomarkers in SMA and ALS » (Biomarkers in Spinal Muscular Atrophy and other Neurodegenerative Diseases session)
Piera Smeriglio chairman of the Epigenetic Regulation in Neuromuscular Diseases session: « Epigenetic Changes in Spinal Muscular Atrophy »
Giorgia Querin selected as chairperson of the Selected Abstracts for Oral Presentation session: « Spinal Cord MRI for Tracking of Early Degeneration in C9orf72 Asymptomatic Carriers: A Longitudinal Study »
Julia Lemos: « The Thymus in the Pathogenesis/Pathophysiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis » (Selected Abstracts for Oral Presentation session)
Friday 8th July
Saline Jabre: « Impact of Mechanical Stretch on Nuclear Shape and Chromatin Organization in Skeletal Muscle » (Selected Abstracts for Oral Presentation session)
Saturday 9th July:
Giorgia Querin: « Gender Issues in Motor Neuron Diseases: has the Disease a Different Course in Men and Women? » (Gender Issues in Neuromuscular Disorders session)
Guillaume Bassez: « Myotonic Dystrophy in Man and Women has Variable Consequence » (Gender Issues in Neuromuscular Disorders session)
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