A synopsis of the 2024 PMSF Family Conference in the words of Michael Schön, MD, Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ulm University. This summary was created first in German for the German Phelan-McDermid community, then translated to english. It summarizes the speaker presentations as well as the family and community sessions.

Dr. Schön is a Research Work Group Leader at the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology at Ulm University, Germany. Dr. Schön has broad expertise in neuroscience (synapse biology, Alzheimer’s Disease, autism, and phylogeny of human brain structures). He is a board member of the German Phelan-McDermid family organization, a member of the Ulm Phelan-McDermid Expert Center for clinical care and research, a PMSF Scientific Advisory Committee member, a consortium member for the European Guidelines on Phelan-McDermid syndrome and he has conducted research with patients and animal models of Phelan-McDermid syndrome. He also is chairman of the European Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Research Consortium.