Myositis

Dr Hector Chinoy Dr Chinoy is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology at the University of Manchester, UK, and an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital. He is on the editorial board for the European Medical Journal and Reumatologia, and is the principal investigator of the UK Medical Research Council funded prospective myositis cohort collection, MYOPROSP. His research interests include the genetic, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of adult myositis. Professor Robert G Cooper Professor Cooper is the Chair of Medicine (Muscle and Rheumatology) in the MRC/Arthritis Research UK Institute for Ageing and Chronic Disease in the University of Liverpool, and an honorary Chair in the Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research in the University of Manchester. He has a long-standing research interest in the immunogenetic basis for myositis, and has worked on the development of myositis-specific antibodies.