Message from the Directors January 2024
Directors' Message January 2024 Welcome to 2024! A new year brings a fresh opportunity to reflect on the past and plan for the future. For the G-CAN leadership, 2024 is an especially appropriate time for reflection and planning as we mark our 10-year anniversary, and a decade of advancing research in the field of gout and crystal-associated diseases. Looking Back In 2014 James Mackay, then CEO of Ardea Biosciences, suggested the creation of a scientific society to advance research in gout and crystal disease. His generous support in the form of an unrestricted grant made this possible and, in the fall of 2015, the Gout, Hyperuricemia and Crystal Associated Disease Network held its first meeting in San Francisco. Seventy researchers and industry representatives attended the half day of scientific sessions, laying…