International conferences

International Conferences

9th European Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Products

The Executive Summary of the 2018 ECRD Conference is here.


International Conference for Behçet’s Disease (ICBD)

Behçet’s disease conferences started in a very humble way in 1964 in Italy and have grown to be much larger, more frequent and worldwide in character. They now take place every two years.

19th International Conference: Athens, Greece
29 June – 1 July 2022 (postponed from 2020 due to COVID-19)
19th ICBD conference report

18th International Conference: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
13 – 15 September 2018
18th ICBD conference report

17th International Conference: Matera, Italy
15 – 17 September 2016
17th ICBD conference report

16th International Conference: Paris, France
18 – 20 September 2014
16th ICBD conference report

15th International Conference: Yokohama, Japan
13 – 15 July 2012
15th ICBD conference report

14th International Conference: London, England
8 – 10 July 2010
14th ICBD conference report
BSS poster

13th International Conference: Poertschach, Austria
24 – 27 May 2008
13th ICBD conference report

Previous International conferences

  1. 1964 Rome, Italy
  2. 1977 Istanbul, Turkey
  3. 1981 Tokyo, Japan
  4. 1985 London, UK
  5. 1989 Rochester, USA
  6. 1993 Paris, France
  7. 1996 Tunis, Tunisia
  8. 1998 Reggio Emilia, Italy
  9. 2000 Seoul, Korea
  10. 2002 Berlin, Germany
  11. 2004 Belek, Turkey
  12. 2006 Lisbon, Portugal

The International Society for Behçet’s Disease (ISBD) has reports of some of these conferences on its website.