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. 2022 Aug;42(6):1151-1155.
doi: 10.1007/s10875-022-01285-7. Epub 2022 May 9.

A Rose Amongst the Thorns: the Mission of the J Project in a Conflictual World

László Maródi  1   2 ; J Project Study Group
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A Rose Amongst the Thorns: the Mission of the J Project in a Conflictual World

László Maródi et al. J Clin Immunol. 2022 Aug.
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The authors declare no competing interests.

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a J Project (JP) meetings were organized between 2004 and 2021 in Eastern and Central Europe (ECE), Egypt, and part of Asia. The cumulative number of meetings was 344 giving an average of 19 meetings/year. The dynamic increase over the past 5 years was remarkable and did not correlate with the number of JP member countries (27 and 32 countries in 2017 and 2020, respectively). Rather, it may represent the devotion of leaders of JP centers in member countries to provide a better care for patients with PID. Over the past 2 years, however, the particular increase could be attributed to opening the scope of the JP to unique mechanisms of coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) in PID patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). A large number of JP centers have joined forces with the COVID Human Genetic Effort program coordinated by the Rockefeller University and the National Institute of Health to extend participation in the COVID-19 research to the area of the JP. b JP meetings organized in 25 countries in 2021. An outstanding number of JP events were organized in Russia having the largest population among countries involved in the JP in ECE. However, both Hungary (estimated population (ep), 9,6 million) and Ukraine (ep, 43 million) organized 5 meetings, whereas 4 meetings were organized both in Turkey (ep, 84 million) and in the Republic of Moldova (ep, 2,6 million) suggesting the lack of correlation between meeting number and country population. In 11 countries one JP event were reported and 7 countries had no meeting at all. These data suggest remarkable differences in ambition or interest of leaders of JP countries in the JP at least in the past year. It is also likely that the JP is only one of the PID-related activities in the countries that have joined the Project over the past 18 years
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