USERN Supports First J Project Meeting in Armenia

The Armenian Center of Medical Genetics and Primary Health Care (CMG) is hosting the 1^st J-Project Meeting in Armenia and Registration is Free for All USERN Members. The J Project collaboration program was to set out in 2002, in an attempt to search for PID patients in Eastern and Central Europe. 

The Center of Medical Genetics and Primary Health Care (CMG) in Yervan and USERN are co-holding the first J-project meeting in Armenia on October 27^th and the great news is that registration is free for all USERN members! Opening with a lecture by Professor Laszlo Marodi, President and founder of J-project, this meeting is set to provide the latest evidence from cut-edge laboratory diagnostics of primary immunodeficiencies (PID) and introducing successful PID registries all over eastern and central Europe and also elsewhere. 

The J Project physician education and clinical research collaboration program was to set out to search for PID patients in Eastern and Central Europe. The Project has spread and reached milestone successes in terms of the number of diagnosed and treated patients and at a later stage, establishing genetic centers for mutational analysis in various ECE countries and elsewhere which was referred to as the J2 Project. 

USERN President, Professor Nima Rezaei in invited keynote speaker to the event presenting the National Registry of Primary Immunodeficiencies in Iran. Iran has been one of the few daughter J-countries outside Europe, since its inauguration. Registration to this spectacular event is free for all USERN Members: http://cmg.am/

Here is the Full Program in Case You are Planning to Come:

October 27, 2018, IBIS Hotel, Yervan

-9:00-10:00 Registration  

-10:00-10:30: Opening speeches by:

Professor Laszlo Marodi, President and founder of J-project

&

Tigran Davtyan, President of AAMIA; Armenian Association of Molecular Immunology and Allergology

-10:30-11:00: Keynote lecture:

Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases: From Bench to Bedside: Nima Rezaei (Tehran, IRAN)

-11:00-11:10: Clinical case:

Pediatrician Job’s syndrome: Hrachuhi Ghazaryan (Yerevan, ARMENIA)

-11:20-11:50: Keynote lecture:

Application of laboratory medicine for diagnostics of primary immunodeficiency: Svetlana Sharapova (Minsk, BELARUS)

-11:50-12:00: Clinical case:

Immunologic and genetic diagnosis in XLA patient from Armenia (Yerevan, ARMENIA)

-12:00-12:20: Oral speech: 

Center of Hematology 

-12:30-13:00: Keynote lecture: 

Hematological and oncological manifestation of Primary Immunodeficiencies: Svetlana Sharapova (Minsk, BELARUS)

13:00-14:00:  Coffee break

By Farzaneh Rahmani