Welcome to ECM2026
This year’s conference will feature an inspiring line-up of plenary sessions and focused breakout sessions exploring new research in extracellular matrix biology and fibrosis.
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Pleanary sessions
- Intestines and the ECM: a target to treat?
- Fibroblasts vs cancer cells – who is in control?
- Tissue destruction in autoimmunity and chronic inflammation
- Dermatology- a sign of a systemic disease
- Drivers of multi-organ fibrosis
- The epithelium as a barrier: IPF & COPD
- ECM in health and disease
Break out-sessions
- Translational ECM Research
- Fibroaging
- Degradomics and proteomics
- Fibrogenesis as a unifying mechanism underlying multiorgan diseases
- ECM biomarkers
- The role of B-cells in inflammation regression
- ECM pharmacology: Liver disease
- ECM Pharmacology: Lung diseases
- Cancer biology and the ECM
- Fibroblasts heterogeneity
