Seminars & webinars

April 2026

Episode 1 – Basic Techniques for Nerve Biopsies (in EURO-NMD Neuropathology Webinar Series)

Tuesday 7 April 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Prof. Angelo Schenone (IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino – Genova, Italy)

Surgical procedures followed by histochemical, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural techniques

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

Episode 2 – Advanced Microscopy Techniques for Nerve Analysis (in EURO-NMD Neuropathology Webinar Series)

Thursday 9 April 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Speaker: Prof. Mathilde Duchesne (CHU Limoges, France)
Moderator: Prof. Edoardo Malfatti (AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France)

Electron immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy, immune-electron microscopy, and molecular genetic techniques

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

Episode 3 – Nerve Biopsy in Clinical Practice (in EURO-NMD Neuropathology Webinar Series)

Thursday 16 April 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Speaker: Prof. Joachim Weis (Director, Institute of Neuropathology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany)
Moderator: Dr. Teresinha Evangelista (Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière – AP-HP, Institute of Myology, Paris, France)

Findings from nerve biopsies in routine clinical practice, with a focus on inflammatory and immune-mediated neuropathies and the use of electron microscopy

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

May 2026

Episode 4 – Infectious and Neoplastic Neuropathies (in EURO-NMD Neuropathology Webinar Series)

Thursday 7 May 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Speaker: Prof. Mathilde Duchesne (CHU Limoges, France)
Moderators: Dr. Matteo Garibaldi (Sant’Andrea Hospital of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Prof. Joachim Weis (Director, Institute of Neuropathology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany)

Infectious neuropathies, nerve tumours, and infiltration; the role of neuropathology in diagnosis

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

Episode 5 – Clinical Cases Requiring Nerve Biopsy (in EURO-NMD Neuropathology Webinar Series)

Thursday 21 May 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Speaker: Prof. Marina Grandis (IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino – Genova, Italy)
Moderators: Prof. Werner Stenzel & Prof. Hans-Hilmar Goebel (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)

Instructive clinical cases where nerve biopsy is essential to reach a diagnosis

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

June 2026

Episode 6 – Nerve Pathology in Neuropathy Models (in EURO-NMD Neuropathology Webinar Series)

Thursday 4 June 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Speaker: Prof. Kleopa Kleopas (the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING), Cyprus)
Moderator: Prof. Edoardo Malfatti (AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France)

Quantitative pathology and outcome measures in experimental models

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

Episode 7 – Amyloid Neuropathies and Therapeutic Approaches (in EURO-NMD Neuropathology Webinar Series)

Thursday 11 June 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Speaker: Prof. Andoni Echaniz Laguna (Université Paris-Saclay- AP-HP, Bicêtre Hospital, France)
Moderator: Dr. Clovis Adam (AP-HP, Bicêtre Hospital, France)

Latest advances in therapeutic strategies for hereditary and acquired amyloid neuropathies

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

Episode 8 – Skin Biopsy in Small Fiber Neuropathy (in EURO-NMD Neuropathology Webinar Series)

Thursday 18 June 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Speaker: Prof. Grazia Devigili (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy)
Moderator: Dr. Teresinha Evangelista (Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière – AP-HP, Institute of Myology, Paris, France)

Diagnostic yield and clinical value of skin biopsy analysis

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

Palliative Care in Adult Patients with Neuromuscular and other Rare Neurological Disorders

Tuesday 23 June 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Marianne de Visser (Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands)

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND

Friedreich Ataxia

Tuesday 30 June 2026 – 16:00-17:00 Paris time

Kathrin Reetz (RWTH-University Hospital Aachen, Germany)

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Organized by EURO-NMD in collaboration with ERN-RND