The PVRI are delighted to announce that our friends at PAH-ICON Genomics are hosting a series of webinars throughout 2021 on various interesting topics of the highest quality scientific content. The series will run monthly from March 2021 to November 2021, excluding June and August, and will intertwine with the PVRI 2021 digital series which is already taking place. 

• Harm Jan Bogaard, Amsterdam University Centre, the Netherlands
• Micheala Aldred, Indiana University, USA
• Stefan Gräf, University of Cambridge, UK
• Wendy Chung, Columbia University, USA
• Martin Wilkins, Imperial College, London, UK
• Eric Austin, Vanderbilt University, USA
• David Montani, Hopitaux Universitaires, Paris-sud, France
• Greg Elliott, University of Utah, USA
• Ankit Desai, Indiana University, USA
• Paul Hassoun, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Webinar 1 // 15 March 2021

Healthy carriers of BMPR2 mutations - screening and new insights

Presentations: 

• Results from the DELPHI-II study
• Lessons learnt from the analysis of the UK National Cohort 
• Genetic screening and clinical follow-up of HPAH families - the Heidelberg experience 
• Hereditary PAH in Leuven 
• Discussing heredity and cascade testing: guidance for a PAH physician 

Webinar 2 // 12 April 2021

Mitochondrial genes and PAH

Webinar 3 // 10 May 2021

ClinGen: Defining the genes and variants that cause PAH

Webinar 4 // 12 July 2021

Metabolomics and proteomics in PAH

Webinar 5 // 13 September 2021

The clinical spectrum of TBX4 mutations in PAH

Webinar 6 // 21 October 2021

Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease: Genetics and clinical phenotypes

Webinar 7 // 15 November 2021

The genetics of scleroderma-associated PAH and vasoresponders