greetingssacNL

Together!

It is a great pleasure and honour to welcome you at the Xth Cornelia de Lange World Conference in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. At this anniversary conference we celebrate two decades of warm and successful reunions of families, professionals and researchers from all over the world.
Cornelia de Lange syndrome is named after a famous professor of paediatrics who worked in Amsterdam a century ago. We commemorate her paper describing two children with the syndrome in 1933. There are now hundreds of individuals with the syndrome recorded in literature. Both medical and social sciences have embraced individuals with the syndrome together with their families.

This conference will be a meeting-up with families and leaders in research and care, who together realized the 1st International consensus statement: Diagnosis and management of Cornelia de Lange syndrome (Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018)!

The aim of this special and dedicated Conference is to bring together researchers and professionals of different disciplines to promote an interdisciplinary research and care approach and to work very closely together with people with CdLS and their families.
At this very moment we are proud to present an interesting scientific symposium ‘From bench to bedside: Cornelia de Lange syndrome as a model for translational and interdisciplinary research and guidelines development in rare disorders’. For the first time we focus on interdisciplinary approaches and reflect upon what we can learn and achieve together, now and in the future. 

I wish you a wonderful and learning time TOGETHER!

Sylvia Huisman
President Scientific Advisory Council CdLS World and advisor of the dutch Vereniging Cornelia de Lange syndroom