The Undiagnosed Diseases Network International (UDNI) is happy to announce its 12th Conference, taking place on October 22-23, 2023, in Tbilisi, Georgia hosted by the Georgian Foundation for Genetic and Rare Diseases (GeRaD) together with the Tbilisi State Medical University.
In order to participate, please, fill out the registration form at https://udni2023.ge/.
Deadline of the registration is October 15, 2023.
After this date can contact the local organizing committee at registration@udni2023.org.
The purpose of this conference is to continue to share data as a consortium of international undiagnosed diseases programs (UDPs), to advance UDPs to developing nations, to promote the diagnosis of rare diseases and the discovery of new diseases, and to foster the elucidation of new mechanisms and pathways. We expect this to be a multidisciplinary working group, with approximately 250 participants. This will be an in-person event.
Venue:
Holiday Inn Tbilisi
1, 26 May Square,
Tbilisi 0171
Georgia
The conference agenda will address a wide range of topics, including:
Inborn errors of immunity
Inherited bone marrow failure syndromes and rare hematological diseases
Rare dermatological diseases
Rare neurological diseases
Rare gastroenterological/intestinal diseases
Rare metabolic diseases
Genetics and bioinformatics approaches to rare diseases
Model systems for the study of rare diseases
Precision medicine approaches for rare diseases
Preliminary list of the invited speakers who already aprroved their attandance (in alphabetical order):
David Adams, National Institutes of Health, USA Lama Al-Abdi, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia Yasemin Alanay, Acibadem University, Turkey Yair Anikster, Sheba-Tel HaShomer Hospital, Israel Gareth Baynam, Rare Care Centre - Perth Children's Hospital, Australia Siddharth Banka, University of Manchester, UK Michael Brudno, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada Helene and Mikk Cederroth, Wilhelm Foundation, Sweden William Gahl, National Institutes of Health, USA Alain Hovnanian, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, France Sofia Douzgou Houge, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway Gunnar Douzgos Houge, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway Salman Kirmani, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Steve Laurie, CNAG-CRG, Spain Anna Lindstrand, Karolinska University, Sweden Paul Lasko, McGill University, Canada Milan Macek, Charles University and Motol University Hospital, Czech Republic Bela Melegh, University of Pecs, Hungary Stephen Meyn, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Ann Nordgren, Karolinska University, Sweden Ugur Ozbek, Acibadem University, Turkey Manuel Posada, ISCIII · Institute of Rare Diseases Research (IIER), Spain Ratna Dua Puri, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, India Arndt Rolfs, University of Rostock,Germany Marco Salvatore, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy Manuel Schiff, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, France Vorasuk Shotelersuk, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Domenica Taruscio, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy Shinya Yamamoto, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Alistair Ward, University of Utah, USA. Ari Zimran, Gaucher Clinic at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel Wendy van Zelst-Stams, Radboudumc, The Netherlands