The Neuromuscular Genetics Congress NMGC
In partnership with the World Muscle Society WMS
4th to 6th of November 2022, Cairo, Egypt
NewGiza University, School of Medicine & Myo-Care Foundation
Cairo–Egypt
On behalf of the scientific committee of the Neuromuscular Genetics Congress (NMGC), in partnership with the World Muscle Society, we are delighted to invite you to attend the NMGC in Cairo, Egypt, on the the 4th to the 6thof November 2022.
The meeting will bring together specialists from across the region of the Eastern Mediterranean, and leading international and regional experts in the field of Neuroscience and Human Genetics in a scientific clinical and academic forum providing networking and collaboration opportunities.
Participants
Medical professionals (neurologists, geneticists, pediatricians, pulmonologists, physiotherapists, nutritionists and postgraduate students interested in the field of NMD from the following countries but not exclusive: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Sudan, Tunisia.
Conference President
Prof. A. Sameh Farid
Conference Vice President
Prof. Lamis Ragab
Executive and Scientific committees’ members:
Prof. Lamiaa Mohsen
Program Director, School of Medicine Dean, NewGiza University
Prof. Ahmed Ihab
Program Deputy Director, Associate Professor of Human Genetics, New Giza University
Dr. Rasha El Sherif
Congress secretary, Chair Myo-Care Foundation and Lecturer of Neuromuscular disorders, NewGiza Universit
Dr. Waleed Abd El Hamid Hassan
Medical Program Manager, NewGiza University
Dr.Miral Hatem Hamad
Senior Grants and Scientific Officer, NewGiza University
Prof. Laurent Servais, Professor of Paediatric Neuromuscular Diseases, University of Oxford, and Executive board member, World Muscle Society.
General Dr. Khaled Amer, Chief Executive Officer at Egypt Center for Research & Regenerative Medicine (ECRRM), Principal Investigator of the Egyptian Genome Reference Project.
Prof. Riyad Khoury, Assistant professor of Neuromuscular pathology, Head of Neuromuscular Pathology Diagnostic Laboratory American University of Beirut Medical Centre, Lebanon.
Prof. Mohamed Shboul, Professor of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan.
The meeting will be held on the 5th of November and the full program, and a list of the invited speakers will be available soon.
Key Topics:
The Development of therapeutic approaches in DMD
Developments in LGMD
Adult-onset myopathies
Auto-immune myositis
Development in RNA therapeutics
Manuscript Writing Workshop
6th of November 2022
The manuscript writing workshop led by the WMS will provide a great opportunity to the young doctors from the Eastern Mediterranean region working in the neuromuscular research to advance their manuscript writing and publish their data under the mentorship of WMS executive board members.
Neuromuscular specialists from the regional countries can submit their scientific abstracts to be reviewed by the scientific committee. Maximum of ten abstracts will be chosen to be presented in the workshop.
Eligible participants:
Medical professionals working in the field of neuromuscular diseases in the following countries but not exclusive: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Sudan, Tunisia.
Abstract criteria:
Abstracts related to the neuromuscular clinical and genetic research of maximum 250 words.
Abstract submission deadline:
All abstracts are submitted through the congress Register Now
Submission deadline: 30th of September 2022.
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