# Channelopathy 2020

> **NIH NIH R13** · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $24,600

## Abstract

Project Summary
Ion Channelopathies are diseases resulting from malfunctions of ion channels. More than 20 years ago,
mutations in genes encoding ion channels were described for the first time in patients with pulmonary, cardiac,
neuronal and neuromuscular disorders defining genetic channelopathies. The field has since grown to include
more than a hundred different diseases consistent with the distribution of ion channels throughout the human
body. Channelopathies have now been linked to a wide variety of diseases, including epilepsy, migraine,
several neurological disorders, blindness, deafness, diabetes, hypertension, several different cardiac
arrhythmias, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, skin diseases and cancer just to name a few. Importantly,
considering the central involvement of ion channels, these diseases share a great deal in common in terms of
disease mechanisms and potential therapeutic development and yet this is the only meeting that exists
allowing the entire Channelopathy community to come together. Therefore, Channelopathy 2020 plans to
continue a tradition of international scientific meetings dedicated to the topic of channelopathy that began more
than 20 years ago with the SkyTop conference in Pennsylvania. This meeting is now being held biannually and
hosts approximatively 150 attendees. Channelopathy 2020 will be held from June 25-27 2020 in Québec
City, Canada. The meeting will be chaired by Isabelle Deschênes from The Ohio State University and
Mohamed Chahine from Laval University. Together with our organizing committee that includes high profile
researchers in the field, we have put an exciting program with 2 internationally recognized plenary speakers, 7
different sessions with 25 invited speakers and we will also have 9 short talks where the speakers will be
selected from the abstract submitted and will be focused on inviting junior investigators giving them the
opportunity to present their work and getting broad exposure in the field. We will also have two poster
sessions. Channelopathy 2020 will place emphasis on comprehensive scientific themes shared across
channel types and diseases seeking to catalyze on the knowledge from each channelopathy to benefit the
broader field. Some of these themes will include basic mechanisms common to the different channelopathies,
disease mechanisms at the organ level, novel therapeutics and precision medicine. The area of precision
medicine is extremely germane to channelopathies since patients can respond differently to treatment based
on the specific mutations and also genotype-phenotype discordance is an important concern for physicians .
Knowledge gained from the different channelopathies covered in this meeting can be applied to other
channelopathies and this cross-fertilization between the different presentations could lead ultimately to the
development of novel therapeutic strategies applicable to the treatment of these different diseases. The unique
format of this conference ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9994579
- **Project number:** 1R13TR003221-01
- **Recipient organization:** OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Isabelle Deschenes
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $24,600
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-04-01 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9994579

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9994579, Channelopathy 2020 (1R13TR003221-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-12 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9994579. Licensed CC0.

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