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To create a world without kidney diseases, the ASN Alliance for Kidney Health elevates care by educating and informing, driving breakthroughs and innovation, and advocating for policies that create transformative changes in kidney medicine throughout the world.

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Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Pharmacology Congress

June 14 - June 14, 2026

Location: Tivoli Hotel and Congress Center Copenhagen, Denmark

Details: https://ecm-congress.org/

ECM2026 comes at a time of real momentum for ECM research. In recent years, the field has progressed from basic biological insight to therapeutic innovation. As the first anti-fibrotic therapies reach patients, we have reason to celebrate—but also a responsibility to push further.

Fibrogenesis—linked to 40% of deaths in the Western World—remains underrepresented in therapeutic development. ECM2026 addresses this gap by convening researchers across disciplines to explore the extracellular matrix in both organ-specific and systemic disease, and to accelerate progress from mechanism to medicine.

Join us in Copenhagen, 14–17 June 2026.