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Our report at the meeting for Research on Ｉntractable diseases of Health and Labor Sciences was published in the online Journal of “Nikkei Biotechnology Japan” and “Medical Tribune Pro”.

Future Annual Meetings of the Asian and Oceanian Myology Center (AOMC)

The AOMC was established in January 2001 to encourage and facilitate collaborative research in the Eastern hemisphere into neuromuscular disorders being stimulated by the success of European Neuromuscular Centre which has been organizing more than 100 international workshops for various topics in the field of neuromuscular disorders. We have been actively involved in the activity of the AOMC from its establishment.

The 10th annual meeting will be held on Februrary 25-26, 2011, in Auckland, New Zealand. For further information, check the official meeting site.

The 11th Annual Meeting

Date: TBA

Venue: Amakusa, Japan

Topics: TBA

The 12th Annual Meeting

Date: TBA (2013)

Venue: Xi An, China

Topics: TBA

May Christine V. Malican won the Best Presentation Award at the 14th International Congress of World Muscle Society held in Geneva, Switzerland on September 9-12, 2009

She presented "Sialic acid metabolites preclude the development of myopathic phenotype in the DMRV/hIBM mouse model" in the oral session.

We demostrated, for the first time, a possibility of the development of therapy for distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles (DMRV)/hereditary inclusion body myopathy (hIBM)

We treated DMRV mice with ManNAc, the product of the deficient enzyme, GNE, in DMRV/hIBM, and sialic acid. Surprisingly, the disease was almost completely prevented by the therapy, supporting the next move towards the clinical trial.
The results were published online in June 2009 issue of Nature Medicine

The 15th International Congress of WMS will be held on October 12-16, 2010, in Kumamoto, Japan.