A Message from the G-CAN Directorship, Winter 2021
Dear G-CAN membership and community, We are so pleased, under the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, to have successfully hosted the live virtual, and on-demand G-CAN 2020 Sixth annual research symposium. The meeting was attended by a record-shattering 182 participants, with 27 Early Career Investigator abstracts. Attendee feedback on the new “Year in Review” sessions, the abstracts (posters) and live virtual presentations, the special awards lectures, and the gout and CPPD/apatite arthropathy clinical and translational mini-symposia was outstanding. We also heeded comments from the surveyed attendees to augment several features of the meeting format to allow for greater interaction between attendees and presenters. We are pleased to announce the G-CAN 2021 Seventh Annual Research symposium, which at this point is planned again as an all-virtual event, with live and on-demand…