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WORLD Symposium The "WORLD Symposium" is the annual research meeting of the Lysosomal Disease Network. This acronym 'WORLD' represents We're organizing research for lysosomal diseases. This annual meeting is planned by the WORLD Lysosomal Disease Network Steering Organizing Committee. In 2013, the WORLD Symposium was in its third year of being co-organized by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), with funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and the National Institutes of Health's Office of Rare Disease Research, at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). From its beginning in 2004, the WORLD Symposium has steadily grown. The graph below shows how meeting registration has increased since 2010. In February 2013 nearly 1,000 total attendees participated in this annual research meeting.

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Similarly, the total number of submitted research abstracts has shown continuing increase, as shown in the following graph:

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The WORLD Symposium is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to offer continuing medical education (CME) credits. The WORLD Symposium has an educational structure that maximizes its educational benefits: the first day is focused on basic research on the nature of lysosomal diseases, including the molecular mechanisms involved; the second day is focused on translational research, the bridge between basic research and human medicine; and the third day is focused on clinical research, including clinical trials of new treatments. This day-by-day progression through the three stages of research is a signature feature of the annual WORLD Symposium. In 2014, the WORLD Symposium will meet in San Diego, California from February 10-13 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel.

An intensive one-day educational course entitled 'Lysosomes 101' is annually offered one day before the WORLD Symposium. The course location is always at the official WORLD Symposium meeting hotel, which changes each year. Lysosomes 101 presents the current knowledge in this area at the graduate-student level. All interested persons are welcome to register to attend this CME-accredited course.