Welcome to your July update from the World Muscle Society
This month, we have flipped the WMS newsletter upside down to bring you important Congress news first. With WMS 2024 in Prague just 10 weeks away, we are very busy making final adjustments to our plans and making sure everything is ready.
We're very pleased to have been able to publish our full programme for the Congress. This programme includes details of all the presentations from both invited speakers and short oral presenters. It's a packed programme and we're very proud to have such a high calibre of presentations.
We are also preparing to open for late breaking news and have included a link to details of our group activities. If you haven't yet registered, you have until 11th September.
Away from the Congress, it's great to see more interviews with our members featured in this month's newsletter. Both Jorge and Soledad, who feature below, have made incredible contributions to our field and will be presenting at WMS 2024 under our Neuromuscular disorders around the world theme.
As always, we rely on members, to share news about what you're working on so we can tell others. Please do contact us.
I wish you the very best.
Volker Straub
WMS President
WMS 2024
Registration for WMS 2024 is still open! You have until 11th September to register for this year's Congress.
We will be accepting submissions for late breaking abstracts between 1st and 31st August.
This aspect of the Congress is specifically designed to present the most relevant, exciting, unpublished and recent news regarding every aspect of neuromuscular disorders.
For full details of how to submit your late breaking news, please visit our website.
Our 2024 Congress Group Activities provide an opportunity to leave the Congress Centre and see some of Prague while networking with fellow delegates.
Several of our group activities are already fully booked. You will be invited to select your group activity when you register for the Congress.
All group activities finish with a networking reception at the Kaiserstein Palace. For more information about the group activities, visit our website.
The WMS provides grants of up to £1000 to assist WMS member in-person attendees who have costs associated with the care of themselves or their dependent(s) during the Congress.
Jorge Bevilacqua will be the deputy chair of our Pre-Congress Teaching Course after the 2024 Congress and has been involved with the WMS since 2003. A familiar face at WMS Congresses, Jorge is also involved in expanding clinical access to care for patients with neuromuscular disorders.
Jorge will feature as a moderator at WMS 2024. You can read more about his career and passion for neuromuscular disorders in our extended interview on our website.
Another of our Latin American delegates, Soledad will feature as an invited speaker as part of our Neuromuscular disorders around the world topic at WMS 2024.
Since graduating in 1993 in Buenos Aires, Soledad has worked tirelessly to advance the care for children with neuromuscular disorders across Argentina and Latin America more widely.
The next deadline for Project Proposal submissions is 19th August. We will share the outcomes by 1st November.
We want to break down the barriers to access for our community and ensure that scientists around the world can network, learn from one another, share science and publish their work.
The July Myology Café is taking place today (Thursday 25th July) at 2pm (BST). This month's Myology Café will feature Dr Imelda de Groot, Program Leader at The Accredited Duchenne Centers Program, who will give an overview and update on the Program. You can register now to take part.
And if language has ever been a barrier to you joining one of our virtual Myology Cafés you might like to know that we have set up access to the digital live translation tool, Wordly.
Bids for 2028 are now closed. Thank you to those who have submitted their expressions of interest.
If you missed the deadline for 2028, but are interested in hosting a future Congress, look out for us launching the process to bid to host the 2029 Congress later in the year.
We will be announcing the successful 2028 host city at WMS 2024 in Prague this October.
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Published on 25 July 2024.
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