CONFERENCE: World Muscle Society Annual Congress, Perth, Western Australia

The World Muscle Society is the world’s premier Society devoted to the research, diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders

In 2012, the Society’s Annual Congress is being held in Perth, Western Australia from Tuesday the 9th to Saturday 13th October: the first time that the Congress has been held in Australia.

The webpage for the Congress is: http://www.wms2012.com

The 2012 Congress is likely to be a watershed Congress in relation to the application of next generation sequencing technologies to neuromuscular disorders both in diagnosis and research and for therapies for neuromuscular disorders, which until now have largely been incurable diseases.