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BEAT PCD annual meeting


BEAT-PCD annual meeting 2021 - Agenda:

13:00 - Welcome, meeting rules and introduction

Amelia Shoemark and Myrona Goutaki

13:15 - Work package summaries (10 min each including questions)

Work Package Leads

14:15 - 30 minute break/interactive sessions

14:45 - PCD genetics and molecular therapies (3x10 min talks including questions)

Chairs: Heymut Omran and Mathieu Bottier

Development and first results of the BEAT-PCD international Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia gene variant database: CiliaVar - Amelia Shoemark

High-content screening for rare respiratory diseases: read through therapy in primary ciliary dyskinesia - Chris O'Callaghan

A messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapeutic designed o treat PCD - Caroline Woo

15:15 - Genome-wide analysis of PCD gene variant frequencies: estimated prevalence and

ethnic heterogeneity (15 min, 5 min questions) - Will Hannah

15:35 - Cohort studies on PCD (2 x 10 min talks including questions)

Chairs: Claudia Kuehni and Renate Kos

The EPIC-PCD study: time to focus on the upper airways - Myrona Goutaki

COVID-PCD: results and future plans - Eva Pedersen

15:55 - Highlights from the ERS meeting (5 x 10 min talks including questions)

Chairs: Jane Lucas and Rob Hirst

The short term influence of chest physiotherapy on lung function parameters in pediatric bronchiectasis - Mieke Boon

The international primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) registry reports genotype/phenotype correlations - Johanna Raidt

Service delivery models for primary ciliary dyskinesia, an international comparison - Bruna Rubbo

Diagnosis of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia: Discrepancy according to different algorithms - Mirjam Nussbaumer

The prevalence of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) in adult patients with bronchiectasis in Dnipro (Ukraine) - Kseniia Suska

16.45 - Closing Remarks

Amelia Shoemark and Myrona Goutaki

17:00 - Break out meetings for specific projects (until 17:30-17:45)

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Earlier Event: September 4
BEAT PCD training school