Congresses

Where he speaks

The congresses and scientific meetings where Arsène Mekinian speaks, chairs a session or presents work, each with the programme that records it.

Upcoming talks

24 and 25 September 2026 · Milan, San Raffaele Scientific Institute

3rd International VEXAS Workshop

Two talks. The first in the Clinical studies of VEXAS session, on RIVET, a phase 1b/2 study of a dual IRAK 1/4 inhibitor in patients with symptomatic VEXAS syndrome. The second in the Patient registries session, on the French registry.

Preliminary scientific programme

13 October 2026 · Paris, Palais des Congrès de la Porte Maillot

11th congress of the Société francophone de néphrologie, dialyse et transplantation

Talk on clonal haematopoiesis and systemic disease, in the session devoted to clonal haematopoiesis and the kidney.

Official programme

Earlier talks and sessions

23 and 24 May 2024 · Paris, Institut Imagine

1st International VEXAS Workshop

Member of the organising committee, with David Beck, Marcela Ferrada, Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, Peter Grayson, Olivier Kosmiker and Benjamin Terrier.

Event page

14 April 2023 · Paris

Internal medicine days of Saint-Antoine Hospital, MINHEMON network

Three roles on the same programme: organising committee with Paul Coppo and Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, session chair, and speaker on treatment choice in myelodysplastic syndromes and chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia with immune manifestations.

Programme, FAI²R network

29 March 2023 · Paris, Palais des Congrès de la Porte Maillot

43rd congress of the Société française d'hématologie

Session of the Groupe francophone des myélodysplasies. Presentation, with Thibault Comont, of the phase 1/2 dose-escalation study of oral azacitidine in patients with VEXAS syndrome and a myelodysplastic syndrome.

Final programme

27 January 2023 · Paris

Carrefour des spécialités, internal medicine, Saint-Antoine Hospital days

Chair of the morning session.

Announcement, Sorbonne Université

3 November 2022 · Online

FAI²R network online conference

Conference on VEXAS syndrome, broadcast in two parts and kept in the network's video library.

FAI²R video library

19 November 2021 · Paris

Immunopathology day: current issues and controversies

Speaker in the immunohaematology session, on myelodysplastic syndromes and autoimmune disease.

Final programme, FAI²R network

24 January 2020 · Paris

Carrefour des spécialités, internal medicine, Saint-Antoine Hospital

Organising committee with Olivier Fain, Bruno Stankoff and Sonia Alamowitch, and speaker on central nervous system involvement in lupus and Sjögren's disease.

Programme

Communications presented at congresses

Congress communications are, for the most part, signed with the teams that carried out the work. The abstract books give the full list and each signatory's position.

French congress of internal medicine, Société nationale française de médecine interne

Twenty communications recorded in the abstract books of the last five congresses, published as supplements to La Revue de médecine interne. The Amiens congress of June 2026 carries eleven of them, five as first author.

Abstract book of the 92nd congress, Amiens, June 2026

ACR Convergence, American College of Rheumatology

Co-authored communications at the 2023, 2024 and 2025 meetings, including work on a disease activity index for VEXAS syndrome.

Abstract, ACR Convergence

ASH, American Society of Hematology

Poster in 2023 on azacitidine in VEXAS syndrome, presented by Thibault Comont.

Online programme, ASH 2023

What this page says, and what it does not

Each entry links to the programme or abstract book that carries it, opened and read on 18 September 2026. A talk that appears on no public page is not listed here. This list is therefore not exhaustive, and does not claim to be: it holds only what a reader can check.