The SCTC, the World Scleroderma Foundation (WSF) and the Friends of the World Scleroderma Foundation (FWSF) are pleased to announce that the following were successful in their application for a Travel Award to attend the 6^th Systemic Sclerosis World Congress in Prague:

• Kimberly Showalter, MD - Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, USA
  "CD34 and alpha-smooth muscle actin distinguish scleroderma gene expression subsets using a machine learning approach"
• Sabrina Hoa, MD, MSc, FRCPC - Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Canada
  "Prevention of interstitial lung disease with immunosuppressive therapy in systemic sclerosis"
• Antonia Valenzuela, MD - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  "Change in calcinosis over 1 year using the SCTC Radiologic Scoring System for Calcinosis of the hands in patients with Systemic Sclerosis"
• Rebecca Ross, MD - University of Leeds, UK
  "Biosamples from at risk SSc patients show classic pathological signs of Scleroderma: opportunity for a diagnosis of pre-clinical SSc"
• Sandra Maximiano, MD - Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
  "Microparticles in systemic sclerosis: a promising biomarker of microvascular damage?"
• Fan Xiubo, MD - Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
  "CXCL5 ameliorates systemic sclerosis via suppressing helper T cell-mediated immune response"
• Raluca Dumitru, MD - Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, UK
  "Serum cardiac biomarkers and cardiac MRI diffuse fibrosis may predict the development of cardiovascular events in systemic sclerosis patients"
• Boyang Zheng, MD - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  "Systemic sclerosis auto-antibody profiles predict interstitial lung disease onset but not progression"
• Janine Schniering, MD - University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
  "Computed tomography-based radiomics features for detection and staging of interstitial lung disease in Systemic Sclerosis - transferability from experimental to human lung fibrosis"
• Melody Pei-Shien Chung, MD - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
  "Obstetric complications prior to systemic sclerosis diagnosis"
• Sue-Ann Ng Pei Lun, MD - Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
  "Evaluating use of T1-MOLLI mapping in assessing systemic sclerosis cardiac involvement"

Kimberly Showalter:
Histologic Features Correlate with the Modified Rodnan Skin Score, Serum Inflammatory Markers, and Patient Reported Outcomes in Patients with Early, Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis

Andreea Bujor:
Periostin as a novel marker of heart involvement in scleroderma

Silvia Bellando Randone:
The very early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (VEDOSS) project: predictors to develop definite disease from an international multicentre study

Victoria Flower:
Assessment of the Repeatability and Convergent Validity with Dermal Collagen of High Frequency Ultrasound in Systemic Sclerosis

Emily Mirizio:
Defining the transcriptional profile of the skin in pediatric localized scleroderma (LS)