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2024 Research Summit

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Session 1: Predictors of Disease, Biomarkers and Diagnosis

  • Shalev Itzkovitz; Analysis of diagnosis of celiac disease via shed cell transcriptomics
  • Michael Fitzpatrick; Can we develop a robust biomarker to monitor celiac disease activity?

Continued Reading: Gluten Challenges Used in Diagnosis May Need to be Increased, Study Shows

Session 2: Disease Models

  • Arnold Han; The role of CD8 T-cells in celiac disease
  • Kati Juuti-Uusitalo; Personalized small intestinal preclinical model for celiac disease
  • Richard Flavell; Generation and validation of a new humanized mouse model, a surrogate for human celiac disease

Continued Viewing: Town Hall with Dr. Arnold Han: Insights into Damage Caused by Celiac Disease

Session 3: Celiac Disease and the Microbiome

  • Rok Seon Choung; Interactions Between Gut Microbiota and the Immune System in Celiac Disease Development
  • Sónia Gonçalves Pereira; The challenges of microbiome analysis and fibre-foraging species

Continued Reading: Changes in microbiome that might signal celiac disease before it develops identified in study of at-risk children

Panel 1: Advances in Therapeutics and Clinical Trials with Jocelyn Silvester and patient representatives

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Panel 2: Advances in Disease Predictors and the Influence of the Microbiome with Michael Fitzpatrick, Rok Seon Choung, Sónia Gonçalves Pereira, and Shalev Itzkovitz

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Panel 3: Triggers of Inflammation and Models to Understand Them with Arnold Han and Kati Juuti-Uusitalo

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Panel 4: The Challenges of Maintaining a Gluten-Free Diet with Lisa Fahey, Shayna Coburn and Kara Feigenbaum

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2024 Beyond Celiac Research Summit

The Beyond Celiac Research Summit is a day packed with groundbreaking celiac disease research and expert panels about the exciting advancements in the field! In the morning sessions, Beyond Celiac-funded scientists present their latest research findings, aimed at a scientific audience. The afternoon sessions are more community-focused; Beyond Celiac-funded scientists discuss what their research means to the celiac disease community and how it could impact daily living with celiac disease. Clinical trial participants share their experiences, followed by an update on the latest treatments being developed. The day concludes with discussing the difficulties of maintaining a gluten-free diet, featuring speakers from the CHOP Celiac Center and Shayna Coburn from Children’s National Hospital.

Speaker Line-Up

We have a line-up stacked with phenomenal researchers, many of them supported by Beyond Celiac! Learn more about their work below:

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Rok Seon Choung, MD, PhD

Research associate and assistant professor at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

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Shayna Skelley Coburn, PhD

Psychologist at Children’s National Hospital and associate professor at The George Washington University, Washington DC

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Lisa Fahey, MD

Co-director of the Celiac Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

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Kara Feigenbaum, RD, LDN

Clinical dietitian, clinical nutrition program, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

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Michael Fitzpatrick, MD

Gastroenterologist at John Radcliffe Hospital and clinical lecturer at University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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Richard Flavell, PhD, FRS

Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

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Arnold Han, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor at Columbia University, New York City, NY

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Shalev Itzkovitz, PhD

Professor at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Kati Juuti-Uusitalo, PhD

Kati Juuti-Uusitalo, PhD

Senior research fellow at University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Sonia Goncalves Pereira, PhD

Sónia Gonçalves Pereira, PhD

Tenured researcher at Polytechnic of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

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Debra Silberg, MD, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Beyond Celiac, Ambler, PA

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Jocelyn Silvester, MD, PhD

Pediatric gastroenterologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard University, Boston, MA

Watch Recordings from the 2024 Summit

Check back in mid-November for recordings of the presentations!

2024 Research Summit Partners

Thank You to our Sponsors!

Without our sponsors, the Research Summit would not be possible. Thank you for supporting research and the celiac disease community!

Thank You to our Cohost!

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia generously donated their space to host the 2024 Research Summit. Thank you for your kind partnership!

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Thank You to our Endorsers!

These organizations recognize and endorse our event. Thank you for your Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia generously donated their space to host the 2024 Research Summit. Thank you for your kind partnership!

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