Meeting report - Alpine desmosome disease meeting 2024: advances and emerging topics in desmosomes and related diseases

Affiliations

• ¹ Chair of Vegetative Anatomy, Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität LMU Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany.
• ² Department of Dermatology, Keio University, 160-8582 Tokyo, Japan.
• ³ Department of Medicine 1, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
• ⁴ The Leon H Charney Division of Cardiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiac Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Clinic for Cardiology, University Heart Center Zurich and Center for Translational and Experimental Cardiology (CTEC), University of Zurich, 8952 Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.
• ⁷ Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
• ¹⁰ Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Philipps-University Marburg 35043, Marburg, Germany.
• ¹² Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
• ¹³ Department Cell Biology of the Skin, Cologne Excellence Cluster for Stress Responses in Ageing-associated diseases (CECAD), Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Joseph Stelzmannstrasse 26, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Mucosal Biology and Inflammation Research Group, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, 109 Zina Pitcher Place, 4057 Biomedical Science Research Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2200, USA.
• ¹⁵ Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, Center for Experimental Medicine, University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁶ University Center of Cardiovascular Science, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Bern, 3008 Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹⁸ Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, 3008 Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹⁹ Department of General, Visceral, Transplant, Vascular and Paediatric Surgery University Hospital Würzburg, Wuerzburg 97080, Germany.
• ²⁰ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.