The 1st SCA Global Conference was held on March 27-29, 2019 at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Attended by 105 leading ataxia researchers, representatives from industry, the National Institutes of Health and patient representatives. Attendees from 18 countries heard presentations from both junior and senior ataxia clinical researchers, participated in poster sessions and heard from a young woman with SCA7 and her father. Her moving story of living with ataxia began the conference in an inspiring manner that continued to impact the attendees of the 2- and 1/2-day conference.
The next SCA Global Conference will be combined with the ARCA Global Conference and will take place virtually on October 19-21, 2020. More information about the conference can be found at this link.
As an outcome of the SCA Global conference four working groups was formed:
- Clinical outcomes
- MR biomarkers
- Standards of biosampling
- SCA Global Policies
If you have an interest in being on one of the working groups, please send an email to Dr. Holm Graessner.
To be receive information on SCA Global initiatives or future meetings, please complete the contact form at this page.