Webinar Bone, Muscle & Beyond: Exploring the interface between inflammatory and glucocorticoid induced bone loss
Date & Time: 19 May 2022, 4 pm CET
Featuring Dr Rowan Hardy and Chaired by Dr Lars Folkestad
Format:
- 5 min welcome & introductions
- 35 min presentation
- 20 min Q&A
- 15 min coffee shop
Learning objectives:
- Understand mechanisms of inflammatory bone loss
- Understand mechanisms of glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis
- Appreciate how inflammation and therapeutic glucocorticoids interact to regulate bone metabolism
- Understand the role that steroid metabolism plays in these processes
Costs: Live webinar is free for ECTS members and non-members, but a registration is required. Recordings are accessible to ECTS members only.
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Faculty:
Featuring Dr Rowan Hardy
Rowan Hardy is a Versus Arthritis Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Birmingham with extensive experience in steroid metabolism and in vivo models of chronic inflammation. Patients with chronic inflammatory diseases develop systemic complications such as muscle wasting and bone loss, which contribute to disability and reduced life expectancy. His research group is examine the roles of myeloid and mesenchymal steroid metabolism and signalling in mediating inflammatory disease pathophysiology and systemic complications in muscle and bone, identifying novel strategies to improve the safety profile of therapeutic glucocorticoids. The inter-disciplinary collaboration linking the Institute of Metabolism & Systems Research and Inflammation & Ageing ensure a fully translational approach to this research, utilising state of the art cell culture, molecular biology and animal husbandry facilities.