Travel Awards
Awardees of SCTC-WSF-FWSF Travel Awards World Congress 2020
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 6th 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"
Awardees of SCTC Travel Awards, 16th International Workshop on Scleroderma Research, Cambridge

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)