Conference report | The 1st Academic Conference of the Mycosis Professional Committee of China Medical Education Association and the 9th National Academic Conference on Deep Fungal Infections ★
From March 12 to 14, 2021, the “First Academic Conference of the Chinese Medical Education Association Mycosis Professional Committee and the Ninth National Academic Conference on Deep Fungal Infections” hosted by the China Medical Education Association was successfully held in the Intercontinental Hotel, Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town, Guangdong. This forum adopts the method of online live broadcast and simultaneous offline meeting, which has attracted wide attention from many scholars from multidisciplinary fields.
On the morning of the 13th, President Huang Zhengming of the China Medical Education Association expressed his warm congratulations on the convening of the conference and gave an enthusiastic speech. Professor Huang Xiaojun, vice president of the China Medical Education Association and chairman of the conference, delivered an opening speech and raised earnest expectations for the conference. Dean Chen Yun, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Liao Wanqing, Professor Liu Youning, Professor Xue Wujun, Professor Qiu Haibo and many other experts attended the opening ceremony. The meeting was chaired by Professor Zhu Liping.
During the meeting, Professor Liu Youning started with the topic of “Review and Prospect of Pulmonary Fungal Infections”. Focusing on clinical practice, he reviewed the development of lung fungal infections from a global perspective and the current clinical problems, and then put forward prospects for the development direction of diagnostic technology and treatment methods. Professor Huang Xiaojun, Professor Xue Wujun, Professor Wu Depei, Professor Li Ruoyu, Professor Wang Rui, and Professor Zhu Liping respectively discussed on the challenges brought by fungal infections in tumor targeted therapy, organ transplantation, and IFD treatment strategies, laboratory diagnostic methods, and combination drugs. Professor Qiu Haibo, who is on the front line in the COVID-19 epidemic, pointed out from the perspective of fungal infections in severe COVID-19 patients that in the global anti-epidemic situation, fungal infections require urgent attention. Several topics aroused heated discussions among many experts and scholars on-site and online. The Q&A session received a strong response and continued applause.
On the afternoon of the 13th, the conference was divided into four sub-venues: Candida session, Aspergillus session, Cryptococcus session, and other important fungi session. Many experts discussed the new developments and hot issues of deep fungal infections from the perspectives of inspection, pathology, imaging, clinical and disease prevention and control. According to the differences in host factors, clinical characteristics, diagnostic methods, medication characteristics and treatment methods of different fungi, they conducted a comprehensive review of the current fungal infections. Experts from various fields communicated with each other, shared experience, worked together to overcome difficulties, and will move forward to solve the problem of fungal infections.
On the morning of the 14th, a case discussion meeting was launched according to the agenda of the conference. Different from the traditional case discussion and sharing, this meeting selected three highly representative classic cases provided by Professor Yan Chenhua, Professor Xu Yu, Professor Zhu Liping and Dr. Zhang Yongmei, involving the Department of Hematology, Respiratory Medicine, and Infectious Diseases. In this gathering of elites, researchers from many fields such as blood, respiratory, infection, severe disease, organ transplantation, skin, pharmacy, etc. exchanged and learned from each other to jointly promote the development of clinical diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections in China. They used the case discussion as an opportunity to provide a communication platform for medical fungi researchers and to realize multidisciplinary collaboration and communication.
In this meeting, Era Biology brought its blockbuster full-automatic fungus detection product, i.e., the Fully Automatic Kinetic Tube Reader (IGL-200), and the Full-Automatic Chemiluminescence Immunoassay System (FACIS-I) to the Deep Fungi Association. Era Biology’s products of G test and GM test were mentioned many times in this meeting, and their detection methods were referred as the recommended diagnostic methods for invasive fungal infections in the multi-edition consensus guidelines on fungal infections, and were recognized by many experts and institutions. Era Biology continues to aid in the rapid diagnosis of invasive fungi with fully automated fungal detection products, and promotes the cause of microbial detection to move forward.
Post time: Mar-18-2020