Edith Busch Meeting

October 7-9, 2026, Freudenstadt-Lauterbad
Germany

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

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  • Wednesday, 7. October 2026
    13.00 spacer Light lunch and coffee spacer Fritz-Hotel Freudenstadt-Lauterbad 
    14.00   Welcome and introductions    
    14.30   John Varga   Scleroderma – from patients to mechanisms and therapy
    15.00   Session 1   Ulf Müller-Ladner
    15.10 - 15.35   Pia Moinzadeh   Lessons from the DNSS
    15.35 - 16.00   Elisabeth Volkmann   GI clinical challenges
    16.00 - 16.25   Ami Shah   Scleroderma – autoimmunity and malignancy
     Coffee break
    17.00   Session 2   Marco Matucci-Cerinic
    17.10 - 17.35   Michael Hughes   DU’s and their management
    17.35   Carol Black   The role of foundations for the health system
    18.30   Dinner    
  • Thursday, 8. October 2026
    08.00 spacer BREAKFAST spacer  
    09.00   Session 3   Chris Denton
    09.10 - 09.35   Andreas Radbruch   B cells and autoimmunity
    09.35 - 10.00   Yoshihide Asano   B cells in scleroderma
    10.00 - 10.25   Selina Keppler   Cytokine production in B cells
     Coffee break
    11.00   Session 4   Andreas Radbruch
    11.10 - 11.35   Armando Gabrielli   PDGFR antibodies
    11.35 - 12.00   Gabi Riemekasten   Activating autoantibodies
     Lunch
    12.30   Session 5   Carlo Chizzolini
    12.40 - 13.05   Catarina Almeida   Plasmacytoid dendritic cells
    13.05 - 13.20   Verena Raker   Ferroptosis induction as therapeutical target in SSc
    13.30 - 13.55   Theresa Graalmann   T cells in SSc
     Coffee break
    14.15   Session 6   David Abraham
    14.25 - 14.50   Honglin Zhu   Fibroblast subsets
    14.50 - 15.15   Kristina Clark   Resident fibroblast populations in fibrosis
    15.15 - 15.40   Verena Lorenz   cRel in fibroblasts
     Coffee break
    16.10   Session 7   Leena Bruckner-Tuderman
    16.20 - 16.45   Norbert Blank   Real world therapy in the DNSS
    16.45 - 17.10   Elise Siegert   CAR T cell approaches
    17.10 - 17.35   Beate Eckes   Inhibition of secretion
    17.35 - 18.00   Jörg Distler   Future therapeutic developments
    18.00 - 19.00   Advisory Board Meeting    
    19.00    DINNER   Shuttle to Lauterbad Mountain hut 
  • Friday, 9. October 2026
    08.00 spacer BREAKFAST AND FAREWELL