Short description
The aim of this webinar is to solve all those questions about EDS from the patient and caregiver community that remain unclear to them.
The webinar is driven by patients, and it is meant to be interactive. The questions are previously collected through a survey launched by the EDS DG, and answered live by experts. Both experts and ePAG advocates in the DG can prepare the contents ahead of time. In addition, the chat is open for interaction and new questions that are raised are also to be answered.
Speaker
Prof. Fransiska Malfait is an associate professor affiliated with the Center for Medical Genetics (CMGG) at Ghent University Hospital and the Department for Biomolecular Medicine at Ghent University, Belgium. She has a master’s degree in medicine (Ghent University, 2000), and a doctoral degree in Medical Sciences (Ghent University, 2007). She trained as a rheumatologist (certified in 2009) and geneticist (certified in 2012).
Her research focuses on three main topics:
- Unraveling the molecular basis of heritable connective tissue disorders (HCTD), with a special focus on the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS) and other hypermobility-related disorders, and studying their natural history and genotype-phenotype correlations
- Elucidating molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying HCTD pathogenesis, using an integrated approach of in vitro and in vivo techniques, on tissue samples of humans and animal models (zebrafish, mice)
- Studying prevalence, nature and pathophysiologic mechanisms of pain in EDS patients and in relevant animal models.
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