The International Symposium, held in cooperation with the New York Academy of Sciences every five years, is a larger, international forum focusing on ready-to-publish basic and clinical medical research and helping connect the global myasthenia gravis medical community. The next International Symposium will take place in New York City in May 2012. Click here for additional details.
The 11th International Symposium on Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders was held May 13-16, 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Presented jointly by the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, Inc., the New York Academy of Sciences, and Blackwell Futura Media Services, the conference was organized and co-chaired by MGFA Medical/Scientific Advisory Board members Richard J. Barohn, MD (Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City) and Henry J. Kaminski, MD (Chair of the Department of Neurology at the St. Louis University Medical Center).
Research investigators and professors from Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States presented the latest advances in:
With more than 225 participants from twenty-five countries, this was the most successful gathering of this prestigious conference since its inception in Philadelphia in 1954.
Attendees included junior and senior university faculty members from areas such as biochemistry, structural biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, immunology, and clinical neurology.
Over the intense three-day meeting (which included more than 50 speakers and session chairs and 100 poster displays), nearly all attendees participated in intense discussions of the NMJ and treatment of autoimmune diseases.
eBriefing by the New York Academy of Sciences