breakthroughs in scleroderma research

About the Spotlight Series Webinars on Scleroderma Research

The Scleroderma Research Foundation’s Spotlight Series: Breakthroughs in Scleroderma Research is a new webinar series for the broader scientific and medical research community.

Please join the Scleroderma Research Foundation to hear leading researchers and clinicians present novel scientific insights and news that sheds light on scleroderma research and therapy.

The Scleroderma Research Foundation intentionally casts a wide net for discovery that may inform our understanding of systemic sclerosis and related diseases, as well as mechanisms of autoimmunity and fibrosis. We welcome your participation.

Now Streaming—RNA Origin of Sex-Biased Immunity

Presented February 20, 2024

About this webinar

Presented by: Howard Chang, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology and Genetics, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dr. Chang shares his insights on RNA Origin of Sex-Biased Immunity.

New Mechanisms Underlying Disabling Pansclerotic Morphea

Presented September 12, 2023

About this webinar

Presented by: Lori Broderick, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Recurrent Fever Disorders Clinic Division of Allergy, Immunology, Rheumatology and Kawasaki Disease, University of California, San Diego

Dr. Broderick shares her insights into the role of STAT4 mutations in pansclerotic morphea.

Scleroderma and Cancer: An Example of Immunoediting?

Presented June 14, 2023

Scleroderma Research Foundation Scientific Advisor Antony Rosen

About this webinar

Presented by: Antony Rosen, MB ChB, BSc(Hons)
Mary Betty Stevens Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology, Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Dr. Rosen shares his insights into how the immune response to cancer may shape autoimmunity.