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The 44th European Workshop for Rheumatology Research was a conference primarily for young rheumatologists and PhD students, where the latest theoretical and applied research proceedings are presented by speakers. The main objective of this congress, which took place between May 8 and 12, was to provide young scientists with an opportunity to present their academic work and research findings. In addition, young people were able to learn from topical presentations by leading European rheumatology researchers. This year, the Department of Rheumatology of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Debrecen won the right to host the European meeting.
“It was a great honor for us to be awarded the right to host the conference again, exactly ten years after the successful 2015 conference in Budapest. I, myself, was the Congress Chair, together with Professor György Nagy as co-chair. Our help in setting the official program was Professor Attila Mócsai, Scientific Committee Chair. The chief topics of the congress included cellular immunology, intracellular signaling, pain, tissue fibrosis, tissue damage, immune tolerance and autoimmunity, autoinflammation, vascular immunology and e-rheumatology,” said Professor Zoltán Szekanecz, Head of the Department of Rheumatology of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Debrecen, to hirek.unideb.hu.
The conference featured twenty-minute presentations by three internationally and nationally renowned experts on nine topics, followed by ten-minute presentations selected by the jury. On Friday and Saturday, a total of twelve poster tours took place with two moderators each.
The participants also presented their posters orally. Three speakers and three poster presenters were finally awarded, based on the scores received for their presentations and from the poster session chairs.
“The conference attracted around three hundred specialists from twenty-five countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom, as well as the United States, who submitted more than two hundred abstracts for the three-day event. This congress is primarily an annual opportunity to showcase the latest advances in basic and partly applied clinical research. The feedback shows that the great value of this year's congress was that some of the presentations were not strictly related to rheumatology, but also covered topics such as oncology, nuclear physics, network theory or artificial intelligence,” said Zoltán Szekanecz.
From the Department of Rheumatology of the University of Debrecen, Professor Gabriella Szűcs and Associate Professor Szilvia Szamosi acted as session chairs. Posters were presented by Levente Bodoki, specialist of the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Boglárka Brúgós, assistant professor of the Department of Hematology, Dóra Csige, PhD student at the Department of Rheumatology, Enikő Sebestyén, resident of the Oncology Clinic and Szilvia Szamosi, associate professor of the Department of Rheumatology.
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