Edith Busch Meeting

October 7-9, 2026, Freudenstadt-Lauterbad
Germany

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

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  • Wednesday, 7. October 2026
    13.00 spacer Light lunch and coffee spacer 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
  • Thursday, 8. October 2026
    08.00 spacer BREAKFAST spacer
    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 
  • Friday, 9. October 2026
    08.00 spacer BREAKFAST AND FAREWELL