NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Continuing Medical Education
Continuing Medical Education
2nd International VEXAS Workshop
Thursday-Friday, September 25-26, 2025
AGENDA
Thursday, September 25, 2025
8:30 AM EDT
BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
9:00 AM EDT
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Steve Abramson, MD
9:05 AM EDT
Introduction
David B. Beck, MD, PhD, Peter Grayson, MD, MSc, Achim Werner, PhD
Clinical Studies of VEXAS: Cohorts/Registries
Moderator: Jerome Hadjadj
9:15 AM EDT
Prospective Studies
Yohei Kirino, MD, PhD
9:40 AM EDT
UBA1 Genetics
Sinisa Savic, MD, PhD
10:05 AM EDT
FrenchVex Organization and Clinical Projects
Sophie A. Georgin-Lavialle, MD, PhD, Olivier Kosmider, MD, PhD
10:25 AM EDT
COFFEE BREAK
10:55 AM EDT
PAXIS Study
Matthew J. Koster, MD
11:20 AM EDT
VTE and VEXAS
Emma Groarke, MD
11:45 AM EDT
Short Talks
Valentin Lacombe, MD, Stanislas Riescher, MD, Tereza Sychrovska, MD, Thomas Young, PhD, Lin-Pierre Zhao, MD, PhD
12:30 PM EDT
LUNCH
Beyond Inflammation - New Approaches to Treating VEXAS
Moderator: Fernanda Gutierrez-Rodrigues, PhD
1:45 PM EDT
Transplant Clinical Trial
Bhavisha A. Patel, MD
2:10 PM EDT
Gene Editing
John Tisdale, MD
2:35 PM EDT
Novel Therapies in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS
3:00 PM EDT
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM EDT
Azacitidine in VEXAS
Thibault Comont, MD
3:55 PM EDT
VEXAS FOUNDATION
Marcela Ferrada, MD, Joe Holman, MBA, Katherine H. Pherson, MA
4:20 PM EDT
Short Talks
Gregorio Maria Bergonzi, MD, Corrado Campochiaro, MD, Elisa Diral, MD, Benjamin Turturice, MD, PhD
5:00 PM EDT
ADJOURN
Networking Reception
5:00 PM EDT
Networking Reception
Friday, September 26, 2025
8:30 AM EDT
BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
8:50 AM EDT
Welcome and Introduction
David B. Beck, MD, PhD, Peter Grayson, MD, MSc, Achim Werner, PhD
Clonal Expansion and Inflammation in VEXAS
Moderator: Maria Sirenko, PhD
9:00 AM EDT
HSC and UPR
Dan Landau, MD, PhD
9:25 AM EDT
VEXAS Poisoning HSCs
Samuele Ferrari, PhD
9:50 AM EDT
Aging and HSCs
Christopher Y. Park, MD, PhD
10:15 AM EDT
HSCs and Inflammation
Stephanie Z. Xie, PhD
10:40 AM EDT
COFFEE BREAK
Basic Insights into E1 biology
Moderator: Achim Werner, PhD
11:10 AM EDT
UBA1 Structure/Function
Christopher D. Lima, PhD
11:35 AM EDT
UBA5 Mechanism and Neurodevelopmental Disease
Jonathan Pruneda, PhD
12:00 PM EDT
UBA6 and UBA1 Structural Studies
Paul Elliott, PhD
12:25 PM EDT
LUNCH
Mechanisms Underlying Disorders of Ubiquitylation – Inflammation and Beyond
Moderator: Olivier Kosmider, MD, PhD
1:40 PM EDT
Uba1b translation and Disease/Inflammatory Cell Death
Benjamin Terrier, MD, PhD
2:05 PM EDT
ERAD and VEXAS
David B. Beck, MD, PhD
2:30 PM EDT
Short Talks
JuanCarlos C. Balandran Juarez, Jason Collins, PhD, Sara El Hoss, PhD, Olivier R. Hermine, MD - PhD, Kana Higashitani, MD, Amy K. Wang, BS
3:15 PM EDT
COFFEE BREAK
3:45 PM EDT
Ubiquitylation Disorders
Ivona Aksentijevich, MD
4:10 PM EDT
ISG15 and Autoinflammation
Dusan Bogunovic, PhD
4:35 PM EDT
LUBAC
Bertrand Boisson, PhD
5:00 PM EDT
Closing Remarks
David B. Beck, MD, PhD, Peter Grayson, MD, MSc, Achim Werner, PhD
5:10 PM EDT
ADJOURN