19 Jan 2021
2021 WorldMEN Conference
The WorldMEN conference is attended by a wide audience of endocrinologists, surgeons, gastroenterologists, oncologists, geneticists and more, all concerned by the diagnosis and management not only of multiple endocrine neoplasia, endocrine tumor syndromes and the various diseases they include (Von Hippel Lindau disease, pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, pituitary tumors, neuroendocrine tumors, neurofibromatosis, calcium disorders…), but also endocrine cancers in general.
This year’s WorldMEN conference was held virtually (due to COVID -19) on April 29th & 30th.
In 2019, AMEND USA sent board representation to the WorldMEN conference held in Houston, Texas to share AMEND’s mission with the large list of attendees. AMEND USA also sponsored a poster award which was awarded to Dr. Costa-Guda’s for her outstanding presentation and poster on cyclin driven parathyroid neoplasia dependence on CDK4/6 in a murine model.