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Proceedings of the Tenth International Meeting on Neuroacanthocytosis Syndromes

Open Access
|May 2021

Abstract

The 10th International Meeting on Neuroacanthocytosis Syndromes was held online on March 10th–12th, 2021. The COVID19 pandemic situation made our planned meeting in Barcelona on March 2020 to be suspended by one year, and finally took place online. The meeting followed the previous nine international symposia, the last of which was held in Dresden, Germany in March, 2018. The setting of the meeting encouraged interactions, exchange of ideas and networking opportunities among the high number of participants from around the globe, including scientists, neurologists and specially patients and caregivers. A total of 27 oral communications were distributed in 8 sessions with topics ranging from molecular and cellular functions of VPS13 genes and proteins, their involvement in Neuroacanthocytosis Syndromes and finally clinical aspects and patients care. In addition, 5 posters were presented. Altogether, scientists and neurologists discussed recent advances and set the bases for next steps, action points, and future studies in close collaboration with the patient’s associations, which are always actively involved in the whole process.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.622 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 25, 2021
Accepted on: Apr 30, 2021
Published on: May 21, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Merce Masana, Manuel J. Rodriguez, Jordi Alberch, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.