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The 21st International Rheumatology Symposium
Date: April 26 - 28, 2012
Venue: Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan
Website: http://jcr2012.com/eng/index.html
Scientific program (tentative)
Thursday, April 26 , 16:00 - 18:30
IS1: Mechanism and diagnosis of loosening after total joint arthroplasty
Chairs:
| Thomas W Bauer | Tomoyuki Saito Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan |
| 1. | The microenvironment around total hip replacement (THR) prostheses | ||
| Yrjö T Konttinen | |||
| Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Biomedicum, Finland | |||
| 2. | New imaging for implant loosening and molecular diagnosis for infection | ||
| Naomi Kobayashi | |||
| Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan | |||
| 3. | Diagnosis of periprosthetic infection | ||
| Javad Parvizi | |||
| The Rothman Institute, USA | |||
| 4. | The pathology of aseptic and septic loosening | ||
| Thomas W Bauer | |||
| Departments of Pathology, Orthopedic Surgery and The Spine Center,The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA | |||
| 5. | In vivo polyethylene wear particle analysis after total joint arthroplasty | ||
| Yukihide Minoda | |||
| Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Osaka City Unoversity Graduate School of Medicine, Japan | |||
Friday, April 27 , 15:45 - 18:15
IS2: New Insights in Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Diseases
Chairs:
| Ulf Müller-Ladner | |
| Takayuki Sumida Division of Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| 1. | Seed and soil model of autoimmunity -Lessons learned from a new polymyositis model of mice- | |
| Hitoshi Kohsaka | ||
| Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan | ||
| 2. | Immunological memory in chronic inflammation | |
| Andreas Radbruch | ||
| Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin (DRFZ), Germany | ||
| 3. | Immunological mechanisms in autoimmune arthritis via ubiquitous autoantigens | |
| Isao Matsumoto | ||
| Division of Clinical Immunology, University of Tsukuba, Japan | ||
| 4. | Pathogenesis in rheumatoid arthritis | |
| Ulf Müller-Ladner | ||
| Department for Internal Medicine and Rheumatology Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology,Kerckhoff Clinic, Germany | ||
| 5. | Genetics and immunology of Sjögren's syndrome | |
| Xavier Mariette | ||
| Department of Rheumatology, Université Paris-Sud 11, France | ||
Saturday, April 28 , 14:20 - 16:50
IS3: Advanced strategies for the treatment of RA
Chairs:
| Roy Fleischmann | |
| Yoshiya Tanaka The First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan |
| 1. | T cell-targeting therapies | |
| Kazuhiko Yamamoto | ||
| Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, The University of Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 2. | B cell-targeting – What can we achieve? How do we best achieve it? What are the risks? | |
| Ronald F. van Vollenhoven | ||
| Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Sweden | ||
| 3. | TNF targeted therapy in RA | |
| Tsutomu Takeuchi | ||
| Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine,School of Medicine, Keio University, Japan | ||
| 4. | Advanced therapeutic strategy using anti-IL-6 receptor antibody, tocilizumab, in RA | |
| Norihiro Nishimoto | ||
| Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Wakayama Medical University, Japan | ||
| 5. | Kinase Inhibition in rheumatoid arthritis - what do we know in 2012? | |
| Roy Fleischmann | ||
| Division of Rheumatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA | ||
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