MS Virtual 2020: Looking Forward to the Week Ahead

The world’s largest multiple sclerosis conference begins this week.  ECTRIMS (the European Committee for Treatment and Research In Multiple Sclerosis) brings together researchers and clinicians from around the world.  In 2020, the conference will be a joint meeting between ECTRIMS and ACTRIMS (the American version).  Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting, which was scheduled to be held in Washington DC, will now be take place completely online.

Over the last couple of years, MStranslate has travelled to ECTRIMS to provide coverage of this fantastic event.  You can review all of our content from the 2018 meeting in Berlin and 2019 meeting in Stockholm here.  Despite our inability to attend the 2020 conference in person, MStranslate will still be part of the virtual meeting and will endeavour to cover as many different topics as possible. 

To keep you up to date with our plans for the event, we’ve summarised some of the key information below for you.  If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to share them with us on social media, or you can send them to Brett directly via e-mail (brett@mstranslate.com.au).

MS Virtual 2020 Overview

Dates

September 11-13, 2020

Times

The conference will largely be held between 9am-5pm US Eastern Standard Time.  This will be overnight for our Australian followers.  While we will be attending ‘live’ and providing running coverage, we will make sure that our content is available for all of our followers around the world.

Topics (Sessions that Brett will ‘attend’)

1.  Impact of the environment and lifestyle and MS risk and clinical course

2.  Pharmacological management of progressive MS

3.  Gut-CNS axis and the microbiome in MS

4.  Innovations in symptomatic and rehabilitative therapy

5.  Strategies to promote remyelination

6.  New Insights on immunopathogenesis

The full program can be viewed here.

Please let us know if there are other sessions that you are interested in and that you would like us to discuss.

Coverage  

Live tweeting throughout the event (www.twitter.com/MStranslate)

Regular updates via our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MStranslate)

Summary articles on our website (www.mstranslate.com.au)

Summary Formats

We will be generating content in a variety of different formats to suit the different needs of our community.  As with previous meetings, this will primarily be a combination of written and video summaries.  As always, we will also attempt to record interviews with researchers from around the world to discuss the work that they have presented.

We are looking forward to hearing all of the fantastic research that is shared at MS Virtual 2020 and to communicating it with you.  We hope that you are also excited and encourage you to interact and engage with all of this content throughout the coming week.