Registration is now open for the 9th Annual G-CAN International Research Symposium! Once again, our hybrid version of our annual meeting will allow members to participate either in person or virtually. Face-to-face sessions are to be held at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, located less than 30 minutes from San Diego International Airport. This will allow those who would like to travel the opportunity to attend in person. However, those who are unable to travel have the option of attending virtually as in the past three years; presentations will be live-streamed and speakers will be able to answer questions and participate in breakout sessions either in person or via the internet.
This year’s meeting has an exciting line-up of speakers and presentations on the most recent gout and crystal-associated diseases research. A full agenda of the symposium topics and speakers can be found here. The two days of general sessions will be held on Tuesday, November 7, and Wednesday, November 8.
This year’s symposium is dedicated to the memory of G-CAN member Philip Robinson, who passed earlier this year, and will feature a special lecture on the COVID pandemic and gout in his honor during the first session.
General Session 1 on Tuesday also will feature the Year in Review, the G-CAN Presidential Emerging Career Investigator Awards, the H. Ralph Schumacher Award Lecture, Early Career Investigator abstract presentations and a mini symposium presented by the Japanese Society of Gout and Uric and Nucleic Acids Research, as well as the G-CAN Master Award for Career Achievement Lectures.
Attendees may choose between two workshops after the first day’s general session: Clinical Study and Trial Design for Hyperuricemia, Gout and Crystal Deposition Disease or Calcific Crystalline Arthritis.
General Session 2 on Wednesday includes the G-CAN Gold Medal Award Lecture, the Crystal Arthropathy mini symposia, a summit session on immunometabolism in crystal deposition disease, mini-lecture presentations by the Early Career Investigator awardees and the G-CAN Rising Leader Award lecture. Certainly one of the highlights of the second day will be “The Great Debate: Yes or No: Urate biology is a productive therapy target to preserve renal function” and an update on G-CAN’s successful launch of our new journal, Gout, Urate and Crystal Deposition Disease.
For those who are able to travel, we have added several social events to provide even more opportunities to meet and network, including a Tuesday cocktail reception after the first general session and a Wednesday night banquet with an optional karaoke post-party.
Registration is FREE to all G-CAN members. Simply click the link below to register and receive session log-in information and access to the symposium website and streamed presentations, as well as information for in-person attendees. We have reserved a block of rooms for attendees at the venue. If you are attending in person, you will be able to register for hotel rooms at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa on the symposium registration site.
Feel free to share this registration link with your colleagues. For more information on the symposium or the meeting venue, contact Rebecca Hill, Executive Director, RebeccaH@g-can.org