Meeting Report on "The International Congress on Autoimmune Pre-disease (2024)"

Justus Ohmes; Afsaneh Mehrpouyan; Julia Wimmer-Groß; Abdul Razzaque Ahmed; Kyle T Amber; Swayanka Biswas; Angela Christiano; Shirin Emtenani; Stephanie Goletz; Jennifer Elisabeth Hundt; Laura Kirchhoff; Khalaf Kridin; Julie Lasselin; Matthias Laudes; Wing Yu Lee; Ralf J Ludwig; Sripriya Murthy; Sadegh Mousavi; Tamas Nemeth; Mareike Neumann; Isa Popken; Rochi Saurabh; Alessia Maria Sbaraglia; Jovan Schanzenbacher; Carolin Schmidt; Leon F Schmidt-Jimènez; Christian Willi Scheiner; Mareile Schlotfeldt; Nora Schoell; Farbod Bahreini; Sarah Stenger

doi:10.1016/j.xjidi.2024.100342

Meeting Report on "The International Congress on Autoimmune Pre-disease (2024)"

JID Innov. 2024 Dec 18;5(3):100342. doi: 10.1016/j.xjidi.2024.100342. eCollection 2025 May.

Authors

Justus Ohmes¹, Afsaneh Mehrpouyan², Julia Wimmer-Groß³, Abdul Razzaque Ahmed⁴, Kyle T Amber⁵, Swayanka Biswas⁶, Angela Christiano^{7

8}, Shirin Emtenani³, Stephanie Goletz³, Jennifer Elisabeth Hundt³, Laura Kirchhoff³, Khalaf Kridin^{3

9}, Julie Lasselin^{10

11}, Matthias Laudes^{12

13}, Wing Yu Lee^{3

14}, Ralf J Ludwig³, Sripriya Murthy¹⁵, Sadegh Mousavi³, Tamas Nemeth^{16

17}, Mareike Neumann¹⁵, Isa Popken³, Rochi Saurabh^{3

18}, Alessia Maria Sbaraglia⁶, Jovan Schanzenbacher⁶, Carolin Schmidt¹, Leon F Schmidt-Jimènez³, Christian Willi Scheiner¹⁹, Mareile Schlotfeldt³, Nora Schoell³, Farbod Bahreini²⁰, Sarah Stenger³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
² Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Priority Area Chronic Lung Diseases, Borstel, Germany.
³ Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
⁴ Center for Blistering Diseases, Department of Dermatology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁶ Institute for Systemic Inflammation Research, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
⁷ Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
⁸ Department of Dermatology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
⁹ Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
¹⁰ Stress Research Institute, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹¹ Division of Psychology/Osher Center for Integrative Health, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² Institute of Diabetes and Clinical Metabolic Research, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
¹³ Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition, Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
¹⁴ Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
¹⁵ Department of Dermatology, Allergology, and Venereology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Physiology, Semmelweis University School of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.
¹⁷ Center for Rheumatology, Buda Hospital of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God, Budapest, Hungary.
¹⁸ Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
¹⁹ Institute of Entrepreneurship and Business Development, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
²⁰ Institute of Anatomy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.

Abstract

The International Congress on Autoimmune Pre-Disease was organized by the German Research Foundation-founded Research Training Group "Autoimmune Pre-Disease" and took place at the University of Lübeck, Germany, on September 16-17, 2024. The event featured various talks and posters from young researchers and international experts and emphasized early interventions and prevention in autoimmune diseases with a focus on systemic rheumatic diseases, pemphigus, and pemphigoid diseases.

Keywords: Autoimmunity; International conference; Pre-disease; RTG2633.