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What's New: Genetics in Auto-Inflammatory Diseases

Prof Yelda Bilginer

Yelda Bilginer, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics and a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine.

She received her MD degree in 1992 and completed her Pediatrics residency and Pediatric Rheumatology fellowship training at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. She also holds a Master of Science degree in Autoinflammatory Diseases from Hacettepe University. 

Professor Bilginer currently serves as the Chair of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at Hacettepe University. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Turkish National Society of Pediatric Rheumatology and serves as the Head of the Autoinflammatory Diseases Working Group in Türkiye. 

Her academic work focuses mainly on pediatric rheumatology and autoinflammatory diseases. She has published or co-authored 267 papers in SCI/SCI-E indexed journals, with 3,885 citations.

Update on Rare Auto-Inflammatory Diseases

Dr Isabella Ceccherini

After graduating in Biological Sciences (B.Sc.) in 1982 from the University of Pisa, Isabella Ceccherini earned her PhD in Genetic Sciences in 1987 from the University of Ferrara, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical Research Council Cell Mutation Unit, Brighton (UK) in 1987-1988.

Isabella Ceccherini began working at the Medical Genetics Unit of the Gaslini Institute in 1988. Since then, she has acquired a solid scientific background, specific training, and expertise in human molecular genetics. She has participated in numerous projects, including the generation and characterization of radiation hybrids, the genetic analysis of Hirschsprung's disease and other neurocristopathies (such as congenital central hypoventilation syndrome), as well as autoinflammatory and immunodysregulation diseases. She has used NGS technology to diagnose rare diseases and search for novel genes. Omics data and their potential for discovering specific molecular signatures represent a recent field of interest, applied to patients with monogenic systemic autoinflammatory diseases (SAIDs) and undifferentiated multifactorial SAIDs, in an effort to develop personalized medicine.

Isabella Ceccherini is currently head of the Research Laboratories Aggregation Area Unit at the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genoa (Italy).

Moderators:

Antonella Insalacolo
Affiliation: PReS Auto-inflammatory WP chair

Nuray Aktay Ayaz 
Affiliation: PReS Auto-inflammatory WP secretary