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AIM

The period from July to September, apart from the summer break, was dedicated to organizing two important events such as the third edition of the Pisa Neurological Days and the Pisa Muscle Award, which will be held in Pisa on November 7th and 8th, and the IV Symposium of the Italian Clinical Group on the Study of Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy, which will be held in Naples, on December 11th and 12th. Anyone interested in participating can contact info@fclassevents.com for further information.

The XXVI AIM congress will be held in Bologna from May 13 to 16, 2026, as a joint event with the XVI annual meeting of the Italian Peripheral Nerve Association.

e-NMD

The 5^th eNMD conference in E-health & innovation to Overcome Barriers in Neuromuscular Diseases will be held in Palermo, Italy, on November 28-29, 2025. More information is available at the website: www.enmd-neuromuscular.eu and at segreteria_milano@fclassevents.com.

MSM

The 14^th Meeting of the Mediterranean Society of Myology (MSM) will likely take place in 2027, as a joint event with the XXVII Meeting of the Italian Association of Myology.

NIL Association

The Association of the Italian Network of Laminopathies (NIL) started its activity in 2009 with the aim of promoting biomedical and clinical research on Laminopathies. It was established as a legal entity in Bologna on July 14^th, 2023. The Association is open to all those who want to share its perspectives, statute and regulations. The XXXI Meeting of the Network will be in Bologna, on November 7^th, 2025 at the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna Room Conference. The meeting, as usual, will host contributions on the muscular, cardiac, endocrine and systemic aspects of laminopathies from Italian and European speakers. The program of the meeting will be available soon on the website https://www.networkitalianolaminopatie.eu.

WMS 

The 30th International Annual Congress of the World Muscle Society will be in Vienna, Austria from 7^th to 11^th October, 2025. The main thematic topics of the congress will be:

Topic 1 - Neuromuscular diseases as multisystemic disorders

Topic 2 - Multidisciplinary management of neuromuscular diseases

Topic 3 - Advances in therapies and drug development

Each day of WMS 2025, a plenary session will be dedicated to exploring one of these topics. Speakers will summarise the state of the field on the selected topics and cover key aspects.

During the meeting the new Executive Board of the Society will be elected. 

Further information is available at the WMS website: https://www.wms2025. com.