News 2023
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Sunday 12th November 2023
Call for Abstract for Biennial Conference in Portugal
The 13th Biennial International 22q11.2 Conference will take place in Silver Coast, Portugal from the early morning of Tuesday July 16th to the late evening of Thursday 18th, 2024.
The abstract portal will open on Monday January 22nd, 2024, and close at midnight EST on Thursday February 22nd, 2024. A direct link will be posted on our Silver Coast 2024 page and distributed shortly.
If you have any questions, please contact the conference planning officers at 22qmeeting@chop.edu.
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Thursday 8th June 2023
22q11 European Conference - Dublin
The 5th European 22q11 Conference will take place at Hyatt Centric Hotel - The Liberties in Dublin, Ireland, on November 18th and 19th, 2023. This is primarily a family meeting, and the local organizer of the conference is 22q11 Ireland.
All researchers working in the field of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome who are interested to present their recent findings at this occasion are welcome to submit a structured abstract of maximum 250 words to Maude.Schneider(at)unige.ch. The deadline for abstract submission is July 1st, 2023. We hope to see you at the conference!
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Monday 29th May 2023
Now Available: Traditional Chinese Version of Healthcare Recommendations for Adults
In early 2023, we published clinical recommendations for children and youth, adults, and prenatal care. We have now translated the adult document into Traditional Chinese. Many thanks to everyone involved in this important project. We hope to translate the guidelines into more languages. If you are able to contribute, please contact the lead authors.
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Thursday 2nd February 2023
Updated Healthcare Recommendations published
The 22q11.2 Society is delighted to share with you that we have successfully published three very important papers:
The Updated Pediatric Healthcare RecommendationsPublished February 2nd, 2023
The Updated Adult Healthcare RecommendationsPublished February 2nd, 2023
Newly developed Prenatal Screening and Diagnostic Considerations for 22q11.2 Deletion SyndromePublished January 6th, 2023
We are enormously grateful for all those contributing to this work, in particular lead authors Sólveig Óskarsdóttir, Erik Boot, Donna McDonald-McGinn, Anne Bassett, and Natalie Blagowidow, as well as Lauren Lairson who provided immeasurable administrative support. We are sure these papers will be highly cited and most importantly will make a huge impact on clinical care for patients and families worldwide. Please feel free to share broadly.
Next on our “To Do” list will be to support the development of subspecialty guidelines, also discussed during the meeting in Split, capitalizing on the REDCap database built by Blaine Crowley and updated by Joanne Loo inclusive of literature reviewed from January 1, 1992 to April 14, 2021, the details of which can be found in the Supplemental Materials for the Adult and Pediatric Guidelines. Many of you signed up to participate in this work in Split but if you did not commit at the time/were not in attendance and would like to participate or would just like to confirm your interest now, please contact Erik Boot or Donna McDonald-McGinn, or send an email to website_editor(at)22qsociety.org. We are certain these too will be invaluable for patients and providers, and we very much hope to complete many of these papers prior to our next conference in 2024.
We sincerely hope you are as excited about these Society milestones as we are, and we look forward to sharing our collective continued progress moving forward.








