2025
IPSCSG Young Investigators Workshop 2025 – 22 to 23 September
Dear IPSCSG members,
After two successful IPSCSG Young Investigators Workshops, the next one will be held in Amsterdam on 22-23 September 2025.
Venue: Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at the Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc.
Main organiser: Cyriel Ponsioen
Both translational and clinical researchers into PSC below the age of 40 are invited to participate in a 1,5 day of state of the art lectures by key opinion leaders in PSC.
There will also be plenty of time to present your own research in the form of 10 min presentations, which will then be discussed among the attendants and faculty.
Provisional program:
Monday September 22:
Session 1: Pathophysiology of PSC
Session 2: It has to come from the lab
Social event /networking
Tuesday September 23:
Session 3: Observation is key
Session 4: Funding and Career development.
As before, costs for hotel accommodation for one night (2 nights for participants from outside Europe) and catering as well as registration will be covered by us. Travel is at your own costs.
There will be room for a maximum of 40 attendees, so do not wait long for registration.
Deadline for submitting abstracts: July 1st, 2025
Please entice your young investigators to send their registration request to Cynthia Noten (c.noten@amsterdamumc.nl)
2024
Young Investigator Workshop 2024 – 16-17th of December
The Young Investigator Workshop 2024 (focussing on Clinical and Translational Research) was on the 16-17th of December 2024 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
This workshop aims to foster international networking between participants as well as internationally recognized experts in the field, and to showcase the latest in clinical and translational research. The event will be focused on young investigators working in the PSC and broader autoimmune/cholestatic liver disease space.
The workshop focus was on means to progress your research ideas through improved understanding of:
- Disease epidemiology and developing natural history studies
- Clinical trials, their limitations in rare diseases, and how to overcome these.
- Risk score and biomarker development, in a bid to personalise the management of patients and improve clinical outcomes
- The role of patient reported outcomes in guiding research that is meaningful to patients and targets their areas of unmet need
Please find the agenda here.
Palak Trivedi and Sarah Al-Shakhshir
IPSCSG meeting in Stockholm – 9-10 September 2024
International PSC Study Group (IPSCSG), in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm Sweden, arranges the IPSCSG meeting with the aim to increase interactions between researchers in the PSC field to move the field forward. The digital abstract book can be downloaded here (book contains program, list of abstracts and a copy of all the abstracts).
Annika Bergquist, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital Huddinge
Niklas Björkström, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital Huddinge
2023
Young Investigator Workshop on Basic Science and Translational immunology in PSC
In order to motivate and engage young scientists into research on the pathogenesis and treatment of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), the International PSC Study Group (IPSCSG) together with the European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN RARE-LIVER) and the Clinical Research Unit 306 (CRU 306), Hamburg, will host a workshop on basic science and translational immunology in PSC research. Please find more information on this page: Young Investigator Workshop on Basic Science and Translational immunology in PSC (ipscsg.org).
IPSCSG Biannual Meeting
The ipscsg biannual meeting took place in June, during the EASL in Vienna.
2022
IPSCSG Biannual Meeting.
The last ipscsg biannual meeting took place during the AASLD Liver Meeting in Washington on
Saturday November 5th 2022 from 1:00-3:00 pm in the Marriott Marquis, China Town Room. See agenda.
IPSCSG MRI Working Group Meeting
The MRI Working Group meeting took place on Monday 26th September 2022
in Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet. See minutes.
IPSCSG Biennial Meeting
The 6th Biennial Meeting was held on 20-21 June 2022
at Bloomsbury campus, London, UK. See minutes.
IPSCSG Biannual Meeting
The Biannual Meeting was incorporated in the program of the Biennial Meeting during ILC2022
on 20 – 21 June 2022 at Bloomsbury campus, London, UK.
Yale Liver Diamond Jubilee
The Yale Liver Diamond Jubilee was held on February 25, 2022.
This event was celebrating 75 years of academic hepatology at Yale and was held in a hybrid format.
Please find the invite and programme here.
2021
Digital IPSCSG Biannual meeting
The digital biannual meeting took place on 9 December 2021 from 5-7pm CET.
The meeting was held as a Teams meeting. Please see minutes.
Digital IPSCSG Biannual meeting
The digital IPSCSG biannual meeting took place on 16 June at 16:30-18:30 pm CET.
The meeting was held as a Teams meeting. Please see minutes.
IPSCSG MRI Working Group Meeting
The MRI Working Group meeting took place on Monday 11 October, from 4-6 pm CET.
The meeting was held on Zoom. Please see the agenda for this meeting.
2020
IPSCSG Biannual Meeting
The digital Biannual IPSCSG took place on Friday 30 October, from 17:00 – 19:00 CET.
Please see minutes.
IPSCSG Biennial Meeting
The 6th Biennial Meeting scheduled for June 15 – 16 2020 in London was postponed until June 2022.
IPSCSG MRI Working Group Meeting
The MRI Working Group of IPSCSG took place on Monday 2nd of November from 4-6 pm CET.
The meeting was held digitally as a Zoom meeting. Please see minutes.
IPSCSG meeting during EASL is cancelled
EASL made ILC2020 into a digital event on 27 – 29 August.
The IPSCSG meeting during the EASL was cancelled.
2019
IPSCSG Biannual Meeting
The biannual IPSCSG meeting took place on Sunday November 10th from 12:30-14:30 hr
in the Sheraton Hotel, 39 Dalton St in Boston. Please see minutes.
MRI Workshop
The IPSCSG- MRI workshop group took place on 28 October 2019, from 09.30-15.30 hrs. at
The Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Please see minutes.
EASL
The IPSCSG meeting during The EASL in Vienna, Austria took place on 13 April 2019, from 10.00-12.00 hr. at
The ILC venue, Reed Messe Wien Congress and Exhibition Center. Please see minutes.
2018
The Liver Meeting
The IPSCSG meeting at AASLD’s Liver Meeting in San Francisco took place on Sunday 11th November 2018
from 6pm till 8pm at the Marriott Marquis, 780 Mission Street.
The International PSC Study Group meeting
The 5th biennial meeting took place on 18-19 June in Paris this year.
International Liver Congress
The spring’s International PSC Study Group meeting 2018 took place at The International Liver Congress arranged by European Ascociaton for Study of the Liver in Paris Thursday morning April 12th, 09:30-11:30 hr, in meeting room WEST3 at the ILC venue.
2017
The Liver Meeting
The IPSCSG meeting at AASLD’s Liver Meeting in Washington took place on Monday October 23rd 2017, from 12:30 till 02:30, in the Union Station Room at the Marriott Marquis.
International Liver Congress
The International PSC Study Group had a meeting at the International Liver Congress arranged by the Europeean Assocition for the Study of the Liver’s (EASL) annual meeting in Amsterdam on Saturdag April 22nd 2017, at 14:00-16:00.
2016
AASLD meeting in Boston
The programme is available in our internal pages.
Photo. Tom H. Karlsen
2nd MRI Workshop in Hamburg-Eppendorf
This second MRI Workshop took place at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf on Monday, September 26th this year.
Biennial IPSCSG meeting in Yale
The 4th biennial International PSC Study Group Workshop was organized by and carried out at Yale Medical Center on June 25th – 27th this year. The meeting was also part of the PSC Partners Seeking a Cure patient conference with one joint session of the two organizations.
More than 100 clinicians and scientists from all over the world working on PSC and related diseases were together to discuss the latest achievements in the field. Two keynote lectures addressed the issues of microbiota and biliary diseases respectively while six break-out sessions shed light on i) animal and cellular models and pathophysiology, ii) disease (natural) history, iii) patient reported outcomes, iv) biomarkers, v) imaging and vi) malignancy studies. You find the programme of the meeting here.
Steps were taken to establish joint studies to solve above challenges. New working groups are under establishment and will be finalized during the next IPSCSG meeting in connection with the annual AASLD conference in November.
The meeting also witnessed the presentation of the first IPSCSG Accomplishment Award to Kirsten Boonstra from Spaarne Gasthuis Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Photo: Hanns-Ulrich Marschall
Professor Schrumpf announces the winner of the IPSCSG Accomplishment Award
We thank the organizers at Yale Medical School, in particular David Assis, James L. Boyer, Mario Strazzabosco and Jennifer Horn who did a fabulous job in organizing the meeting.
EASL Hepatology Conference in Barcelona
This year’s first meeting was carried out in Barcelona on April 14th within the framework of the EASL Hepatology Conference.
2015
1st meeting of the IPSCSG MRI working group October 2015
On October 19th around 25 attendees from over 12 IPSCSG-associated centers around the world joined the 1st MRI workshop of the IPSCSG held in Hamburg, Germany. Ongoing research studies on MRI in PSC were presented during the meeting, and the workshop particularly addressed the clinical need and the areas of uncertainty of MRI in PSC. Therefore, a major aim of the workshop was to define areas of research and to define a standard with respect to MRI in PSC.
IPSCSG meeting, November 15th 2015
ILC Vienna (EASL)
2014
ECCO Copenhagen
ILC London (EASL)
3th Biennial meeting Amsterdam
AASLD Boston
2013
EASL Amsterdam
AASLD Washington DC
2012
EASL Barcelona
2nd Biennial meeting Hamburg
AASLD Boston
2011
EASL Berlin
AASLD San Francisco
2010
1st Biennial meeting Oslo
AASLD BostonYoung Investigator Workshop on Basic Science and Translational immunology in PSC