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To combine existing new technology with the big patient cohorts that are available thanks to AutoCure has not been possible before – Europe is a veritable goldmine for this type of research. To combine environmental and genetic data will most likely lead us to a much deeper understanding of RA-diseases. And the structures we are building here will hopefully also be useful for the understanding of other diseases. With this I just want to encourage further collaboration, and announce new events. First a leadership workshop in Prague April 17–18. This workshop provides an opportunity to discuss leadership in cademic medicine and science in general, and gives an extra flavour to the discussion
of how to make the best out of our gender differencies.

The organisation group for this workshop has put together an extremely interesting program, to which both those who currently are leading research groups are welcome but also those who are not yet in that position but who are interested in questions on how to develop leadership in our world.

We also want to announce the next summer workshop in The Netherlands, outside Leiden, 20–22 September. This workshop will be organised by Andy Cope and other rheuma immunologists and will be concentrated on immunology of rheumatoid arthritis and myositis, of course in the context of genetics, of patient outcomes and translation to animals. I recommend those of you who can make it to reserve the dates in your calendars. AutoCure is an FP6 EU-funded integrated research project, with a translational approach to autoimmune diseases in the postgenomic era, using inflammatory arthritis and myositis as prototypes and learning examples.

/Lars Klareskog

Coordinator