Neuromuscular Diseases: the next ten years

The John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (JWMDRC) are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the centre!

 

To mark this occasion and commemorate the legacy of Lord John Walton, they will be holding an international conference, “Neuromuscular Diseases: the next ten years”, at The Baltic Centre from Sunday 24^th to Monday 25^th of November 2024.

 

Launched in November 2014, the centre brings together expertise and consolidates Newcastle’s distinguished, international, and world-leading record in research and care for neuromuscular diseases. Our team, based at the Centre for Life, is working across Newcastle University and the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It focusses on translational research to improve the health outcomes of people living with neuromuscular diseases.

 

They are immensely proud to have continued to build, shape, and develop this centre’s team of international experts and to be leading them now under the auspicious name of Lord Walton, who first established a dedicated and integrated neuromuscular clinical and research unit in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the 1950s.

 

The conference will be organised by us and arranged around our four strands of work: Clinical Care & Diagnostics, Clinical Research, Basic Research and Networking & Collaborations. All are strongly interlinked and the work across these teams is key to our success and impact in the international neuromuscular field.

 

Over the last decade the centre has been performing translational research to bring diagnosis, care, and therapy to people living with neuromuscular disease. At the conference, they will reflect on our last ten years of success and explore exciting developments in the field, as they look forward to what the next ten years of work will bring to the field. The conference will feature exciting lectures from experts at the JWMDRC and panel discussions including leading neuromuscular and rare disease guest-experts. The programme will feature the following topics:

 

• Advancing neuromuscular diseases through research
• Clinical research for patients with neuromuscular diseases
• Diagnostic & clinical services for patients with neuromuscular diseases
• National & international networking initiatives

 

As well as being a celebration of the JWMDRC, this event will provide the opportunity to forge new partnerships, learn from the leading experts in the field and share best practices.

 

Please follow this link to find out more about the conference.