We had our life 2022 EGS GalNet Meeting from 11-13 November in the Ramada Airport hotel in Amsterdam.
It was great to see each other again after 2 years of online and hybrid meetings in 2020 and 2021.
Please find below some pictures and the program of the inspiring an knowledge sharing day.
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Morning Program :
Moderators :
Dr. Danijela Petković Ramadža, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Gerry Berry, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA
10:00 – 10:30 | Welcome and opening | Jeroen van Bruggen, Chair GVN , The Netherlands Jeroen van Kempen, Chair EGS, Son, The Netherlands Prof. Estela Rubio-Gozalbo, Chair GalNet, MUMC+ Maastricht, The Netherlands |
10:30 – 11:15 | Gene therapies: promises and challenges | Prof. Gerard Berry, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Prof. Wayne Grody, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA |
11:15 – 11:30 | Roads to availability of new treatments | Prof. Annet Bosch, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Afternoon program :
Moderators
Dr. Elaine Murphy, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
Prof. Eileen Treacy, National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Dublin, Ireland
13:30 – 14:15 | Fertility in CG: insights in potential pathomechanisms | Prof. Kent Lai, University of Utah, School of Medicine, USA |
14:15 – 14:45 | Omics in CG | Prof. Annet Bosch, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Prof. Rubio-Gozalbo, MUMC+ Maastricht, The Netherlands |
14:45 – 15:45 | GalNet Work session
Brainstorm with members present |
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14:45 – 15:45 | EGS session Discussion with EGS members present
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Louise Robertson, Dietician for the Galactosemia Support Group, United Kingdom |
15:45 – 16:15 | GalNet / EGS session | Karen ‘t Hooft, chair medical committee GVN |
Moderator
Maaike van Kempen
16:30 – 17:30 | Research collaborations meetings | |
16:30 – 17:00 | Breakout session Transcranial stimulation |
Britt Derks, PhD galactosemia MUMC+ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Dr. Bianca Panis, paediatrician and child neurologist, fellow metabolic diseases MUMC+ Maastricht, The Netherlands |
17:00 – 17:30 | Breakout session : QoL |
Merel Hermans, PhD galactosemia, Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands |
17:30 – 18:00 | Set date for meeting next year and closure | Jeroen van Kempen & Prof. Estela Rubio-Gozalbo |