Researchers from the Institute at the 15th MGFA International Conference

Institute researchers at the 15th International MGFA ConferenceInstitute experts presented their work at the 15th International MGFA Conference on myasthenia gravis and associated disorders, held from 13 May to 15 May 2025 in The Hague, Netherlands. Organised by the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MGFA), this conference brings together neuromuscular researchers and healthcare professionals to discuss topical issues such as new treatments, non-pharmaceutical interventions, new models for studying MG and its aetiology.

The Institute’s experts chaired certain sessions and took part in the oral communications and poster sessions to present their work.

Sessions chaired

  • Tuesday 13 May • Session 1 • Overview of Autoimmunity • Rozen Le Panse
  • Tuesday 13 May • Session 3 • Etiology of Myasthenia Gravis • Rozen Le Panse

Oral communications

  • Tuesday 13 May • Keynote • The future of autoimmunity: the place for precision medicine • Sonia Berrih-Aknin
  • Wednesday 14 May • Agrin/LRP4/MuSK CMS • Stéphanie Godard-Bauché
  • Thursday 15 May • Facilitators and barriers to exercise in autoimmune MG: a cross-sectional consumer survey study • Simone Birnbaum

Posters

  • 20 • Simone Birnbaum •  Fatigbility in Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis: Fact or fiction? A scoping review of existing literature
  • 21 • Simone Birnbaum • Why am I short of breath? A prospective study to evaluate dyspnea in adults with Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis: the MYARESP study protocol
  • 38 • Nadine Dragin • Molecular and metabolic analyses of ACHR+ MG skeletal muscles
  • 79 • Edouard Hemery • Decipherin the role of mononuclear phagocytes in thymic inflammation in Myasthenia Gravis
  • 114 • Léa Lippens • Development of a refined experimental AChR-MG mouse model
  • 188 • Sofia Sossa Marmol • Optimization pf mesenchymal stromal cells conditioning in perspective of a treatment for Myasthenia Gravis
  • 195 • Frédérique Truffault • Juvenile Myasthenia Gravis in a French cohort: focus on thymic histology

 

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