The 10th Annual National Meeting of the RDS was held at the Wyndham Grand Chicago Riverfront Hotel on October 20, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois, USA in conjunction with the annual national meeting of the ACR. With the authors’ permission, the Annals of Translational Medicine has kindly agreed to publish abstracts of the presentations that were given at the 2018 RDS meeting. All the meeting abstracts could be found here: https://atm.amegroups.com/issue/view/875.