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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Basic Science

Ebbs and Flow: Endothelial Alterations in Systemic Sclerosis

Wednesday, October 29, 2025
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Central Time

    Moderator(s)

  • Monica Yang, MD

    UCSF
    San Francisco, California, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

  • MH

    Mengqi Huang, PhD

    University of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburgh, PA, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • Monica Yang, MD

    UCSF
    San Francisco, California, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

Vasculopathy is considered a central feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc), meaning it is one of the primary pathological processes driving the disease. This session will review mechanisms contributing to vasculopathy in SSc.

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize the central role of vasculopathy in SSc
  • Demonstrate how endoMT and endothelial senensence contributes to fibrosis in SSc
  • Evaluate how dysregulated angiogenesis contributes to SSc-PAH

Presentations:

  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Central Time
    EndoMT in Systemic Sclerosis

    Speaker: Eliza Pei-Suen Tsou, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Central Time
    Dysregulated Angiogenesis in Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension

    Speaker: Benjamin Korman, MD – University of Rochester