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Dear ::first_name,

We've had a superb start to the year at WMS, with lots to look forward to.

Our 28th Annual Congress is already taking shape, with the summary programme now published. The team are getting ready to open registrations very soon. Our event team and local organisation committee also took part in a site visit recently, experiencing plenty of what Charleston has to offer.

Our Executive Board has been busy, along with a number of new committees formed to support our work. You can read more about the committees and their members below.

We are also looking forward to our first board meeting of the year in April where we will continue to shape the strategic direction of the WMS. To help us with this, we have created a short survey for our members. We want to make sure we shape the WMS of the future to meet and exceed your expectations. I encourage you to take a few minutes to complete this short survey.

Thank you to all our members for their ongoing support and involvement in making WMS the thriving organisation it is.

Best wishes

Volker Straub, President

The WMS 2023 Summary Programme and Pre-Congress Teaching Course Programme are now available to view. This year's topics will be:

Understanding phenotypic and genetic diversity in neuromuscular disorders
Pathobiology of neuromuscular repeat expansion diseases
The effect of lifestyle, exercise and nutrition on neuromuscular pathology and outcomes

WMS 2023: View Summary Programme

View Pre-Congress Teaching Course Programme

Watch this space!

WMS 2023 will soon be open for registrations and abstract submissions. Keep an eye out on the Congress website and email bulletins in the coming weeks.

Apply for a Fellowship and join us at WMS 2023

Every year the WMS awards fellowships, funded by an annual royalty from Neuromuscular Disorders by Elsevier. For the WMS 2023 Congress, WMS will support up to 100 fellowships awarded of up to £2,000 to help in-person congress attendees with their travel and accommodation costs.

We are keen to promote equitable access to in-person attendance at the annual Congress. We encourage WMS members to apply if costs associated with travel to the Congress impact their ability to attend and benefit from in-person Congress attendance.

Expanded Fellowship Categories:

First time WMS Congress Attendee (will be verified)
Early Career Researcher: Applicants should be in an early career phase, training or not yet in a definite established position. The maximum age for applicants is 40 years old (at the time of submission), indicated during abstract submission.
Travel fellowship for WMS members: WMS members interested in attending the annual Congress but find the registration fee and associated costs a barrier to in-person attendance.

Find out more, including how to apply, on the Congress website.

WMS 2022 Prizewinners

The 27th WMS Annual Congress saw exceptionally talented scientists present their broad spectrum of research.

We are proud to introduce you to the very deserving WMS2022 prizewinners and once again offer our congratulations to all our WMS2022 winners.

Read more about our winners here.

Meet the new WMS Committees

Thank you to all those who volunteered to join a WMS committee, we had a fantastic response.

You can meet all our new committee members here:

Meet the Members:
Volker Straub

In a new feature series for our website, Ruchee Patel, who has recently joined our social media committee, meets and interviews our members, providing a unique insight into the lives and careers of some of the key players in the WMS.

This month, she interviews our President, Professor Volker Straub.

Publication Highlights

Our latest Publication Highlight is here. Dr Aggarwal shares his work: Trial of Intravenous Immune Globulin in Dermatomyositis.

Read more

International Imaging in Neuromuscular Disease

The fourth International Imaging in Neuromuscular Disease Conference organized by the MYO-MRI consortium is taking place 5-7 November in Berlin.

The conference aims to promote exchanges between radiologists, neurologists, biologists, physicists, engineers, and other scientists involved in neuromuscular imaging.

The main topics selected for the 2023 edition are: emerging imaging approaches, other imaging modalities, dynamic imaging, and clinical research.

Find out more

Jobs

We have several relevant job opportunities in the field on our website now.

Please use the form on here to submit a job posting.

The job posting will be reviewed before being published and also shared on WMS social media platforms.