VASCERN Days 2019 is quickly approaching! This year, our annual seminar will take place in Brussels, Belgium from Novembre 7th, starting at 8:30 am, to November 8th, finishing at 4:30pm at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel.

We look forward to welcoming around 100 participants to this event, including 65 HCPs representatives from 37 expert teams, 15 ePAGs from 15 Patient Organisations, 5 representatives from 4 of our newly appointed affiliated partners, and 11 stakeholders representing DG SANTE (European Commission),  Orphanet, FAVA-Multi (The French Network for Rare Vascular Diseases), Eurordis, EJP-RD, OpenApp, the French Ministry of Health, AP-HP Bichat Hospital and more!

Read the full programme here

The meeting will consist of several plenary sessions (including the annual board meeting) and two 4 to 5 hour long Rare Disease Working Group sessions as well as a dedicated VASCERN ePAG meeting. There will also be many opportunities for networking and sharing of ideas!

This year we are also doing our part for the planet by going paperless! All event documents (programme, information kit etc), will be provided to members on one of our brand new VASCERN USB flash drives! The flash drives will equally contain other important VASCERN documents for our members.

Please make sure to follow us on social media as we will be live tweeting throughout the two days with all the latest news and happenings using the hashtag #VASCERNDays2019! We encourage all our attendees to also participate!

The European Joint Programme on Rare Disease Information Day & Brokerage Event will take place on November 7th from 8:45 am to 4:30pm in Istanbul, Turkey.

See the programme here

The Monthly ePAG Meeting will take place on November 12th from 10am to 11:30am.

The Workshop of the ERN Research Working Group  with Research Infrastructures will take place in Brussels on November 13th, 2019.

VASCERN's coordinator, Prof Guillaume Jondeau, will be in attendance at this event.

The 9th ERN Coordinators Group (ERN-CG) Meeting will take place in Brussels from the 4th of November 2019 from 10 am -5:30 pm and the 15th of November from 9am -1 pm.

Prof Guillaume Jondeau, VASCERN coordinator, and Marine Hurard, VASCERN Project Manager, will be in attendance.

The PPL-WG Monthly meeting will take place on November 18th from 5:30pm to 6:30pm (Paris time).

The VASCA Monthly meeting will take place on November 20th from 3:45pm to 5pm (Paris time).

Paris Lymphology Days will take place from November 21-22nd, 2019 in Paris, France. It will be hosted by Dr. Stéphane Vignes (PPL WG Member) and will feature numerous presentations, including one  by VASCA WG Chair Prof Miikka Vikkula on the genetics of lymphedema, as well as practical workshops.

To read the full program (in French) click here

For more information (in French) click here

The HTAD WG Monthly meeting will take place on Monday, November 25th from 5 to 6 pm (Paris time).

The EJP-RD is organising a Workshop and Hackathon: "Molecular pathways for rare disease (FAIR) data analysis" that will take place from November 26-29, 2019  at the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands.

All information on this event and registration here

The course "challenges and choices in aortic valve and root surgery in younger patients" will take place at Glaziers Hall, London Bridge, London UK on November 11th, 2019.

Dr. Yaso Emmanuel (HTAD-WG member) is one of the course organisers for this event.

For more information, please click here

The MSA WG Monthly Meeting will take place on December 4th from 6 to 7pm (Paris time).

The VASCA Lymphangiography task force meeting will take place on December 9th at 1 pm (Paris time, UTC +1).

The Monthly ePAG Meeting will take place on December 10th from 10am to 11:30am (CET time zone).

The International Congress Of Research On Rare And Orphan Diseases co-organized with IRDiRC and EJP-RD will take place from March 11-14, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

• To see the agenda: click here 
• To see the time table : click here 
• To register (early registration until November 30th, 2019) : click here 

The Ehlers-Danlos Society brings together the leading world experts to discuss the latest medical and scientific information about the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility spectrum disorders.

The conference covers two separate days: March 21, 2020 is Health Professionals Day and March 22, 2020, is Patients Day for those who have EDS and HSD and their families.

For both Professionals Day and Patients Day, sessions will be translated into Spanish, French, German, Dutch, and Italian.

For more information, click here.

The International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA) will host ISSVA 2020, the 23^rd  Workshop for the Study of Vascular Anomalies,  in the beautiful city of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada from May 12-15, 2020.

The Scientific Program will be a venue to present the latest advances in research and science in vascular anomalies.  It will also feature introductory and advanced sessions that attendees can use to increase their knowledge in the fundamentals and advanced topics in the field.  ISSVA 2020 will provide a multidisciplinary forum for many specialties including – but not limited to - interventional radiologists, dermatologists, plastic surgeons, ENT surgeons, oncologists, pediatricians, pediatric surgeons, and pathologists.

The ISSVA Workshop has continuously grown thanks to your dedication to the field and participation in the meeting. We invite you to participate in ISSVA 2020 to help us continue this trend of knowledge sharing through oral presentations, difficult cases, and poster sessions.

More information here

The 10th European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products (ECRD 2020) will be held at the Stockholmsmässan Congress Center in Stockholm, Sweden on 15 to 16 May 2020.

ECRD is a biennial event that has allowed the rare disease community to gather since 2001 to monitor and benchmark relevant initiatives, drive the policy framework around rare disease diagnosis, treatment and care and empower the rare disease community to drive change where it is needed most.  Outputs from these conferences have informed national and local policy initiatives and are referenced in decision-making around the provision of services for the community.

The overarching theme for this conference is The rare disease patient journey in 2030. We will address the issues that matter today to rare disease patients and those who support them, while also anticipating the needs of tomorrow's rare disease patients and families so that innovative and sustainable responses can begin to be developed.

The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases serves as official partner of the conference. For more information, click here.