🌆Are you ready for the Windy City? Deep dish pizza, the Magnificent Mile and a full agenda of dynamic speakers await you at the 2025 Annual G-CAN Research Symposium in Chicago, Oct. 22-23. 👉Registration closes October 16: g-can.swoogo.com/2025. #GCAN2025.

Don’t miss your chance! 🗓️ Register for the 2025 11th Annual G-CAN Symposium & Workshop—happening October 22-23 at the Intercontinental Magnificent Mile, Chicago. 👉Secure your spot now: g-can.swoogo.com/2025 #GCAN2025 #Chicago2025

Today is #GoutAwarenessDay! 🦶✨ Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis, yet myths about its causes and treatments persist. Join us and @GoutAlliance in spreading awareness and supporting mental health! Learn more: www.g-can.org | goutalliance.org

🎉 Calling all G-CAN junior research faculty! If you hold an MD, DO, and/or PhD, are a G-CAN member, and are under 38 on October 22, 2025, you may be eligible to apply for the G-CAN Jr. Faculty Award! 🌟Letters of intent are due June 5, 2025. Details: www.g-can.org

G-CAN 2025 Call for Abstracts Abstracts are now invited for submission to the G-CAN 2025 Early Career Investigator Symposium at the 11th Annual Meeting October 22-23 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Instructions for submission and eligibility requirements: www.g-can.org/wp-content/u...

A type of bacteria found in the gut helps regulate uric acid levels in the blood of geese and mice. https://buff.ly/3O57ct1

Congratulations to S. Louis Bridges Jr., MD, PhD, selected as the next editor-in-chief of Arthritis & Rheumatology

We are delighted to announce that the Best PhD Thesis award is open! We are inviting young scholars to send us their applications! You have to have defended in 2024. The process is open from November to May! 📷 For more information: mdpi.com/journal/gucd...

Congratulations to our #2024GCAN 🏆Award Winners! Sydney Grooms, Tania Crișan, Chio Yokose, Natalie McCormick, and Sara Tedeschi and especially our own G-CAN president and cofounder, Robert Terkeltaub, G-CAN Gold Medal Award Winner.

Great debate at #2024GCAN: xanthine oxidase for all people with #gout initiating ULT (vs personalized Rx choices) won out. Hail to the (fire) Chief, gout goddess Lisa Stamp, on her decisive win by audience vote.

Heartfelt congratulations and standing ovation in the room for Dr. R. Terkeltaub receiving the #2024GCAN Gold Medal with tour de force talk about his research contributions over his career to date that have provided seminal insights into #gout, #CPPD, #OA: “Follow the Molecule”

Gout camp at #2024GCAN has come to an end. #Burt enjoyed meeting the #gout goddesses, chondrolcal gals (and guy), and the crystaleers. @nicoladalbeth.bsky.social

#GCAN2024 was this week in Alexandria, VA. There is a growing GCAN activity in calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (CPPD, previously known as pseudogout). Tx to Dr. Neogi for posting this from the CPPD workshop, though it looks more like a LARGE but mighty passionate group to me !

The Gout, Hyperuricemia and Crystal-Associated Disease Network (GCAN) is delighted to announce that we are following the blue butterfly and transitioning from X to Bluesky.