SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

May 8, 2026 (Friday)
14:00 – 14:40 Session 1 – Opening Session
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome Huri Özdoğan
14:10 – 14:30 FMF, Bird’s Eye View Ahmet Gül
14:30 – 16:00 Session 2
14:30 – 15:00 Is Geography Destiny? Nükhet Varlık
15:00 – 15:30 How to Study the Impact of Enviromental Factors on Disease Phenotype? Thomas Henry
15:30 – 15:50 How to Assess Field Surverys in FMF Huri Özdoğan
15:50 – 16:00 Q&A
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Session 3
16:30 – 17:00 Last 2 years review: Basic science Yelda Bilginer
17:00 – 17:30 Last 2 years review: Clinical Science Özgür Kasapçopur
17:30 – 18:15 Session 4
17:30 – 17:45 TBA Hasan Yazıcı
17:45 – 18:15 Clinical Diagnosis Through the Brush of the Renaissance Painters and Beyond Eldad Ben Chetrit (Online)
May 9, 2026 (Saturday)
08:15 – 09:00 Project Discussion / Bosphorus Project Project Working Group
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5
09:00 – 09:20 Pyrin Inflammasome Activation and Its Regulation Mohamed Lamkanfi
09:20 – 09:30 Q&A
09:30 – 09:50 Challenges in Variant Interpretation and Speck-Seq Analysis Thomas Henry
09:50 – 10:00 Q&A
10:00 – 10:20 Significance of Heterozygous Patients in FMF Seza Özen
10:20 – 10:30 Q&A
10:30 – 10:40 Oral Presentation
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:40 Session 6
11:00-11:20 FMF and Clonal Hematopoiesis Sophie Georgin-Lavialle
11:20 – 11:25 Q&A
11.25 – 11:45 FMF as an Inflammatory Immune Dysregulation Disorder Sulaiman Al-Mayouf
11:45 – 11:50 Q&A
11:50-12:10 The Smoldering Fire: Subclinical Inflammation Helen Lachmann
12:10 – 12:15 Q&A
12.15 -12:35 Monitoring Inflammation: CRP and Beyond Tilmann Kallinich
12:35- 12:45 Q&A
12:45 – 13:15 Procetuca Satallite Symposium & Lunch Break
Speaker: Abdurrahman Tufan		 Chairs: Ahmet Gül
13:15 – 13:45 Poster Reviewing
13:45 – 14:40 Session 7
13:45 – 14:05 Autoinflammatory Diseases Involving the Pyrin Inflammasome Ahmet Gül
14:05 – 14:10 Q&A
14:10 – 14:30 PFAPA, SURF and FMF Marco Gattorno
14:30 – 14:40 Q&A
14:40 – 15:40 Session 8
14:40 – 15:00 FMF in Isolated Populations Piero Portincasa
15:00 – 15:15 Differential Diagnosis of FMF in FMF-Prevalent Regions Abdurrahman Tufan
15:15 – 15:30 Differential Diagnosis of FMF in Low-Prevalence Regions Charalampia Papadopoulou
15:30 – 15:45 Q&A
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Session 9
16:00 – 16:20 FMF Amyloidosis in Algeria Ait-Idir Djouher
16:20 – 16:40 Update: Treatment of AA Amyloidosis Serdal Uğurlu
16:40 – 17:00 Management of Special Cases with Amyloidosis Sophie Georgin-Lavialle
17:00 – 17:10 Q&A
17:10 – 18:10 Session 10
17:10 – 17:30 Colchicine: Update Eldad Ben-Chetrit (Online)
17:30 – 17:40 Q&A
17:40 – 18:00 Real life data: Anti–IL-1 Agents in FMF Betül Sözeri
18:00 – 18:10 Q&A
May 10, 2026 (Sunday)
09:00 – 10:30 Session 11
09:00 – 09:20 The Challenge to Treat FMF with Spondyloarthritis, PSA Umut Kalyoncu
09.20 -09.30 Q&A
09:30 – 09:50 Pros and Cons of Registries Isabelle Kone Paut
09:50 – 10.00 Q&A
10:00 – 10:30 Oral Presentations
10:30 – 11:10 Session 12 – Round Table I
10:30 – 10:50 Treatment Cessation in Adults with FMF Ilan Ben-Zvi (Online)
10:50 – 11:10 Treatment Cessation in Children with FMF Nuray Aktay Ayaz
11.10 – 11.50 Session 13 – Round Table II
11:10-11:50 Compliance and Transition Mehmet Yıldız
11:50 – 12:20 Coffee Break
12:20 – 13:20 Session 14
12:20-12:35 Bosphorus Project Project Working Group
12:35-12:50 Research Agenda in EULAR Recommendations Erdal Sağ
12:50-13:20 Review of the Meeting Sezgin Şahin
13:20-13:40 Abstract Awards Serdal Uğurlu
13:40-14:00 Closing: Future Perspective  Huri Özdoğan, Ahmet Gül, Eldad Ben-Chetrit
14:00 – 15:00 LUNCH


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