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Meet the Professor Sessions
Allied Health Professionals Session
ECTS training course - Bone Markers

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Saturday 24 May, 2008
9:00-16:30   ECTS training course - Bone Markers
10:30-12:30 Allied Health Professionals Session
Chairs: Dorthe Nielsen (Odense, Denmark)/Adolfo Diez-Perez (Barcelona, Spain)
10:30  

INTRODUCTION TO THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MEETING
Adolfo Diez-Perez (Barcelona, Spain)

11:00   FRACTURE RISK ASSESSMENT--HOW IT WORKS IN PRACTICE
Bruce Ettinger (San Francisco, USA)
11:25   ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS DOING RESEARCH IN OSTEOPOROSIS
Dorthe Nielsen (Odense, Denmark)
11:50   4 oral communications from the submitted abstracts  
12:30   Allied Health Professionals Session closes  
11:00 - 12:30   Satellite Symposium 1
supported by Roche/GSK
 
13:00 - 14:30   Satellite Symposium 2
supported by Novartis
15:00 - 16:30   Satellite Symposium 3
supported by Eli Lilly
17:00 - 18:30  

Satellite Symposium 4
supported by Amgen

19:00-20:15  

Opening ceremony

19:00   WELCOME TO THE MEETING AND INTRODUCTION TO BARCELONA
Richard Eastell (ECTS President and Scientific Programme Committee Chair)
Nuria Guañabens and Xavier Nogues
Local Organising Committee Co-Chairs
19:15   ECTS/ASBMR Debate:
The house believes that the case for vitamin D insufficiency is clearly proven

Heike Bischoff-Ferrari (Zurich, Switzerland)
Marc Drezner (Madison, USA)
20:15-22:00   TUNA BAND PERFORMANCE AND WELCOME RECEPTION
Sunday 25 May, 2008
08:00-09:00   Symposium 1: Bone repair and regeneration
08:00

IS01

BONE REPAIR: POTENTIAL PHARMACEUTICAL MANIPULATION
David Little (Sydney, Australia)
08:30 IS02 BRIDGING THE GAP- SKELETAL REGENERATION USING OSTEOPROGENITOR POPULATIONS - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Richard Oreffo (Southampton, UK)
09:00-10:00   Orals 1
10:00-11:15   Coffee and Attended Posters
11:15-12:45  

Workshop 1: Clinical trials

11:15 IS03 STATISTICAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL TRIALS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OSTEOPOROSIS
Dennis Black (San Francisco, USA)
11:45 IS04 STUDY DESIGN
Juliet Compston (Cambridge, UK)
12:15 IS05 ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY-SPONSORED TRIALS AND THE ROLE OF ACADEMIC INVESTIGATORS
Steven Cummings (San Francisco, USA)
11:15-12:45   Workshop 2: Notch signalling
11:15 IS06

NOTCH SIGNALLING IN BONE
Brendan Lee (Houston, USA)

11:45 IS07 ROLES OF NOTCH SIGNALLING IN OSTEOBLASTIC ACTIVATION IN THE HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL NICHE
Laura Calvi (Rochester, USA)
12:15 IS08 THE ROLE OF NOTCH SIGNALLING IN CHONDROGENESIS
Tim Hardingham (Manchester, UK)
13:00-14:00   Meet the Professor sessions
14:00-15:00   Symposium 2: Genetics of bone disease
14:00
IS09 MAPPING COMPLEX TRAITS IN HETEROGENOUS STOCK MICE
Jonathan Flint (Oxford, UK)
14:30 IS10

GENETIC DETERMINANTS OF OSTEOPOROSIS
André Uitterlinden (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

15:00-15:10  

Award ECTS/Amgen Research Fellowship

     
15:10-16:10   Orals 2
16:30-17:30  

Short Orals 1 - Clinical

Short Orals 2 - Basic

18:00-19:30  

Satellite Symposium 5
supported by the Alliance for Better Bone Health
(P&G and sanofi-aventis)

Monday 26 May, 2008
08:00-09:00   Symposium 3: Long-term effects of antiresorptives
08:00 IS11 OPTIMIZATION OF OSTEOPOROSIS TREATMENT
Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden, Netherlands)

08:30

IS12 BISPHOSPHONATES AND OSTEONECROSIS OF THE JAW
Ian Reid (Auckland, New Zealand)
09:00-10:00   Orals 3
10:00-11:15   Coffee and Attended Posters
11:15-12:45  

Workshop 3: Low bone mass in young adults

11:15 IS13 BONE MASS GAIN DURING GROWTH IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Maria Luisa Bianchi (Milan, Italy)
11:45 IS14 DIAGNOSIS AND EVALUATION OF SECONDARY OSTEOPOROSIS IN YOUNG ADULTS
Aliya Khan (Hamilton, Canada)
12:15 IS15 OSTEOPOROSIS IN PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: HOW AND WHEN TO TREAT
Elizabeth Shane (New York, USA)
11:15-12:45   Workshop 4: Osteoimmunology
11:15
IS16 ROLE OF CYTOKINES IN BONE HEALTH AND DISEASE
Joe Lorenzo (Farmington, USA)
11:45 IS17 T CELLS: UNEXPECTED PLAYERS IN THE EFFECTS OF ESTROGEN AND PTH IN BONE
Roberto Pacifici (Atlanta, USA)
12:15 IS18 REGULATION OF OSTEOCLASTOGENESIS BY INNATE IMMUNE CO-RECEPTORS
Mary Nakamura (San Francisco, USA)
13:00-14:00   Meet the Professor sessions
14:00-15:00   Symposium 4: Osteoclast/osteoblast relationships
14:00 IS19 ARE NON-RESORBING OSTEOCLASTS SOURCES OF BONE ANABOLIC ACTIVITY?
Morten Karsdal (Herlev, Denmark)
14:30 IS20 OSTEOCLASTOSTEOBLAST BIDIRECTIONAL SIGNALLING
Koichi Matsuo (Keio, Japan)
15:15-16:10   Orals 4
16:30-17:30  

Short Orals 3 - Clinical

Short Orals 4 - Basic

18:00-19:30  

Satellite Symposium 6
supported by Nycomed

Tuesday 27 May, 2008
08:00-09:00   Symposium 5: Novel targets in osteoarthritis
08:00 IS21 FRZB SIGNALLING PROVIDES A MOLECULAR BASIS FOR AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OSTEOARTHRITIS AND OSTEOPOROSIS
Frank Luyten (Leuven, Belgium)
08:30 IS22 OSTEOARTHRITIS PROGRESSION AND GENETIC FACTORS
Tim Spector (London, UK)
09:00-10:00   Orals 5
10:00-11:15   Coffee and Attended Posters
11:15-12:45   Workshop 5: Arterial calcification
11:15 IS23 ANIMAL MODELS OF AORTIC CALCIFICATION
Manuel Naves (Oviedo, Spain)
11:45 IS24 MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF ARTERIAL CALCIFICATION
Lorenz Hofbauer (Marburg, Germany)
12:15 IS25 CLINICAL IMAGING OF ARTERIAL CALCIFICATION
Claus Glüer (Kiel, Germany)
11:15-12:45   Clinical Cases
11:15-12:45   Workshop 6: In vivo molecular imaging
11:15 IS26 MOLECULAR IMAGING OF BIOCHEMICAL FUNCTIONS USING (SMALL ANIMAL) PET
Pius August Schübiger (Zurich, Switzerland)
11:45 IS27 2D AND 3D WHOLE BODY OPTICAL IMAGING AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN BONE RESEARCH
Clemens Löwik (Leiden, Netherlands)
12:15 IS28 CAGED HYPERPOLARIZED XENON AS A TARGETED MRI AGENT WITH HIGH CONTRAST
David Wemmer (Berkeley, USA)
13:00-14:00   Meet the Professor sessions
14:00-15:00   Symposium 6: FGF23: hypophosphatemia and beyond
14:00 IS29 ROLE OF FGF23 IN PHOSPHATE HOMEOSTASIS AND RELATED DISORDERS
Seiji Fukumoto (Tokyo, Japan)
14:30 IS30 FGF-23: BEYOND PI REGULATION
Beate Lanske (Boston, USA)
15:10-16:10   Orals 6
16:30-17:30   Orals 7
18:00-19:30  

Satellite Symposium 7
supported by MSD

Wednesday 28 May, 2008
08:30-09:30   Symposium 7: Advances in the physiopathology, diagnosis, and treatment of bone metastases
08:30 IS31 NEW PHYSIOPATHOLOGICAL PATHWAYS OF BONE METASTASES
Philippe Clézardin (Lyons, France)
09:00 IS32 NEW DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES FOR CANCER BONE DISEASE
Robert Coleman (Sheffield, UK)
09:30   Coffee

10:00

 

Hot Topics

11:24-11:36  

Awards

ECTS PhD Studentships

ECTS Postdoctoral Fellowships

ECTS/Czech Society for Metabolic Diseases

Eastern European Young Investigator Grants

11:36-12:00   Late breaking abstracts
12:00  

Closing ceremony

Presentation of Awards:
New Investigator Awards
Poster Prizes

12:30

 

Meeting closes

 


   
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