Mencìa de Lemus - SMA Europe President
Congress Chair: Professor Brunhilde Wirth, Chair of the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany
Nicole Gusset, vice - President of SMA Europe: “The Patient Expectation”
Professor Judith Melki “From gene discovery to treatments”
Invited speaker and Chair: Professor David R. Liu, Harvard University, USA
3 oral presentations from selected abstracts
Invited speaker and Chair: Professor Wolfgang Müller-Felber, Head of the Center of Neuromuscular Disorders and Clinical Neurophysiology, v. Haunersche Kinderklink, University of Munich
3 oral presentations from selected abstracts
Chaired by Professor Jan Kirschner, Medical Director of the Department of Neuropediatrics at the University Hospital Bonn, Germany & Professor Nathalie Goemans, Head of Child Neurology & Child Rehabilitation, NMRC Children, Leuven, Belgium
Invited speaker and Chair: Dr. Gabriella Viero, Group Leader of the Laboratory of Translational Architectomics at the Institute of Biophysics (CNR, Italy)
3 oral presentations from selected abstracts
Invited speaker and Chair: Professor Maryam Oskoui, Associate Professor in the Departments of Paediatrics and Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, Canada
3 oral presentations from selected abstracts
Invited speaker and Chair: Professor Tom Gillingwater, Professor of Anatomy, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
3 oral presentations from selected abstracts
Chaired by Professor Eugenio Mercuri, Professor of Paediatric Neurology at the Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Invited speaker and Chair: Professor Ludo van der Pol, Head of the SMA Expertise Center, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
3 oral presentations from selected abstracts
Invited speaker and Chair: Professor Kathryn Swoboda, Chair in Neurogenetics and Director of the Neurogenetics Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
3 oral presentations from selected abstracts
Invited speaker: Professor Kevin Talbot, Head of Department, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK