Edith Busch Meeting

13.00	Light lunch and coffee	Fritz-Hotel Freudenstadt-Lauterbad
14.00	Welcome and introductions
14.30	John Varga	Scleroderma – from patients to mechanisms and therapy
15.00	Session 1	Ulf Müller-Ladner
15.10 - 15.35	Pia Moinzadeh	Lessons from the DNSS
15.35 - 16.00	Elisabeth Volkmann	Clinical challenges
16.00 - 16.25	Ami Shah	Scleroderma – autoimmunity and malignancy
Coffee break
17.00	Session 2	Marco Matucci-Cerinic
17.10 - 17.35	Michael Hughes	DU’s and their management
17.35	Carol Black	The role of foundations for the health system
18.00	Dinner

08.00	BREAKFAST
09.00	Session 3	Chris Denton
09.10 - 09.35	Andreas Radbruch	B cells and autoimmunity
09.35 - 10.00	Yoshihide Asano	B cells in scleroderma
10.00 - 10.25	Selina Keppler	Cytokine production in B cells
Coffee break
11.00	Session 4	Andreas Radbruch
11.10 - 11.35	Michael Hughes	DU’s and their management
11.35 - 12.00	Carol Black	The role of foundations for the health system
Lunch
12.30	Session 5	Carlo Chizzolini
12.40 - 13.05	Catarina Almeida	Plasmacytoid dendritic cells
13.05 - 13.20	Verena Raker	Monocytes in SSc
13.30 - 13.55	Theresa Graalmann	T cells in SSc
Coffee break
14.15	Session 6	David Abraham
14.25 - 14.50	Honglin Zhu	Fibroblast subsets
14.50 - 15.15	Kristina Clark	Resident fibroblast populations in fibrosis
15.15 - 15.40	Verena Lorenz	cRel in fibroblasts
Coffee break
16.10	Session 7	Leena Bruckner-Tuderman
16.20 - 16.45	Norbert Blank	Real world therapy in the DNSS
16.45 - 17.10	Elise Siegert	CAR T cell approaches
17.10 - 17.35	Beate Eckes	Inhibition of secretion
17.35 - 18.00	Jörg Distler	Future therapeutic developments
18.00 - 19.00	Advisory Board Meeting
19.00	DINNER	Shuttle to Lauterbad Mountain hut

08.00

BREAKFAST AND FAREWELL