Committee Chair
Claudine Blin
Claudine Blin is research director and head of the team “Osteoimmunology, Niches and Inflammation” at the Laboratory of Molecular Physiomedicine, Nice, France. She obtained her PhD from the University Paris Diderot in 1995. In 2003, she established her independent research group on osteoimmunology in Nice. Her team projects are at the interface between osteology, immunology and stem cell biology, mostly in the context of chronic inflammatory diseases. She has a special interest in the heterogeneity and innate immune function of osteoclasts, their interaction with immune cells, and their contribution in inflammatory bone destruction. Claudine Blin has been secretary and is president elect of the French Society of Mineral Tissue Biology (SFBTM) and co-chairs the ECTS PhD training action group. She is a member of the scientific board of the French Arthritis Fondation and a member of the scientific and educational committee of the Life University School of Research, University Cote d’Azur.
Committee Role & Responsibilities
ECTS achieve its mission by promoting and providing the science-based information that stakeholders need for their practice. The Committee will work towards supporting the ECTS Strategic Plan to position ECTS as the main European authority on issues in the bone field and to develop clinical and basic science policies and consensus.
The Policies & Consensus Committee will:
- Consider and comment on policies and topical issues that are relevant to the bone field and research in general
- Develop guidelines and position papers
- Respond to specific scientific queries where ECTS has been asked to give a view
- Comment on topical issues
- Assist with satisfying the educational requirements of ECTS members by working closely with the ECTS Education and Scientific Programme Committees to identify areas that require debate at the annual congress
Committee Structure & Composition
Basic Science Practice Action Group
- Michaela Tencerova, ECTS Academy, Co-Chair
- Jan Tuckermann
- Kent Søe
- Silvain Provot
- Katherine Staines