Dirk Hubmacher was invited as a speaker and session chair for the Biannual Meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB) 2018 in Las Vegas. He is chairing the session on proteases and extracellular matrix remodeling and talk about the biology and pathobiology of ADAMTS proteases.
“Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature by the careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease. For it has been found in almost all things, that what they contain of useful or of applicable nature, is hardly perceived unless we are deprived of them, or they become deranged in some way.”
-William Harvey (Physician-Scientist), 1578-1657