Save the Date for UMDF Mitochondrial Medicine 2024 - June 26-29 in Cleveland, Ohio

We are excited to announce the launch of the MitoU Seminar Network. Beginning in January of 2023, the UMDF along with MitoTalks and the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine will continue to share information about upcoming seminars right here - all in one location.

Visit umdf.org/seminars to view all meetings.

Next Webcast will be May 13, 2024

May 13, 2024

Moderator: Philip Yeske, PhD, UMDF Science & Alliance Officer

UMDF Mito Med 2024 Program - What to Expect this June

Speakers:

UMDF Mitochondrial Medicine 2024 Organizing Committee 

  • Tamas Kozicz, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 
  • Jodi Nunnari, PhD, Altos Labs, Bay Area, CA 
  • Sumit Parikh, MD, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 
  • Eva Morava-Kozicz, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 
  • Fernando Scaglia, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 
  • Zuela Zolkipli-Cunningham, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA

Time: 12:00pm ET/11:00am CT/9:00a PT

Looking Ahead...

Bench-to-Bedside will return this Fall. Watch for more information this Summer.

Watch Past UMDF Bench-to-Bedside Seminars

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Monday, April 8, 2024


Moderators: Amel Karaa, MD, UMDF Science & Medical Advisory Board Chair and Nicole Wilson, UMDF Program Manager

Watch Clinical Trial Readiness - Update on Wearables Data and More from the 2024 Clinical Research Pavilion


Zuela Zolkipli-Cunningham, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia


Peter J. McGuire, MS, MD, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)


Amber Sapp, PT, DPT, Emmes





Monday, March 11, 2024


Moderators
: Philip Yeske, PhD, UMDF Science & Alliance Officer, Marni Falk, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Xiaowu Gai, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

MSeqDR: the Mitochondrial Disease Sequence Data Resource Consortium - Accelerating Genomic Discovery


Elizabeth McCormick, MS, LCGC, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia


Emily Bogush, MS, CGC, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


Lishuang Shen, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles


Daniel McGinn, GC, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


Nicole Wilson, UMDF Program Manager

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Monday, February 12, 2024


ModeratorFernando Scaglia, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

Novel Mendelian Mitochondrial Disorders in the Arabian Peninsula


Majid Alfadhel, MD, MHSc, SSC-Ped, ABHS(CH), FCCMG, King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


Mohammed Almannai, MD, King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Monday, January 8, 2024


Moderator: Amy Goldstein, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Neuroradiologic Features of Mitochondrial Disease - Click Here to Watch


Asthik Biswas, MD, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, UK


César Augusto Alves, MD, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Monday, December 11, 2023


ModeratorAmel Karaa, MD

Various Industry Representatives & Academic Investigators: Mitochondrial Disease Clinical Trial Updates


Speakers:

The following provided updates: Minovia, Abliva, GenSight Biologics, Khondrion, OMEICOS Therapeutics, Saol Therapeutics, Stealth Bio Therapeutics, Tisento Therapeutics, and UCB

Monday, November 13, 2023


ModeratorFernando Scaglia, MD

MNGIE and Current Therapeutic Approaches



Michio Hirano, MD

Columbia University School of Medicine


Click Here to Watch the October 9 Recording
Monday, October 9, 2023


Moderator: Richard Haas, MD


Watch 4-Hydroxymandelate for HPDL Deficiency, a Novel Mitochondrial Encephalopathy


Michael Pacold, MD, PhD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Joseph Gleeson, MD, University of California San Diego