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You are here: Home / Exchange Scholarship Grants Awarded

Exchange Scholarship Grants Awarded

ECTS EXCHANGE GRANTS AWARDED

Name: Avnet, Sofia
Laboratory visited: University of Turku, Finland
Title of project: Citoskeletal disorganization in human osteoclasts
induced by cathepsin K down-regulation in an in vitro
osteolytic bone metastasis model
Name: Bakhtiyarova, Svetlana
Laboratory visited: VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
Title of project: Vitamin D status among patients with hip fracture
and elderly control subjects in Yekaterinburg, Russia
Name: Bakker, Astrid
Laboratory visited: Institute of Biotechnology and Dept of Biosciences,
Helsinki
Title of project: The production of Osteoblast Stimulating Factor-1
(OSF-1) by bone cells subjected to mechanical stimulation
in the form of a pulsatile fluid flow
Name: Danks, Lynett
Laboratory visited: St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Title of project: The effect of treatment of breast cancer cells with
prolactin or RANKL on the expression of RANKL and OPG
mRNA
Name: Daroszewska, Anna
Laboratory visited: Bone Research Laboratory, Aberdeen
Title of project: Role of osteoprotegerin in the aetiology and pathogenesis
of Paget’s disease of bone (PDB)Abstract available here
Name: Gabet, Yankel
Laboratory visited: Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Switzerland
Title of project: Evaluation of endosseous titanium implants anchorage
in trabecular boneAbstract available here
Name: Guerrini, Matteo
Laboratory visited: Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen, UK
Title of project: Genetics of osteoclast-poor autosomal recessive
osteopetrosis
Name: Gomez, Cedric
Laboratory visited: Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
Title of project: Bone innervation in MyoD/Myf5 double knock out mice
Name: Helfrich, Miep
Laboratory visited: ACTA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title of project: The response of osteoblasts to fluid shear stress

Abstract available here

Name: Longo, Maurizio
Laboratory visited: ProSkelia Pharmaceuticals, In Vitro Pharmacology,
France
Title of project: Molecular mechanisms involved in bone-specific metastatic
growth processes in breast cancer
Name: Kruk, Marcin
Laboratory visited: Molecular Medicine Centre, Western General, Edinburgh,
UK
Title of project: Positional cloning as technique applied in identification
of susceptibility gene(s) for osteoporosis in men
Name: Maric, Ivana
Laboratory visited: Academic Unit of Bone Metabolism, University of
Sheffield, UK
Title of project: Development and validation of biomechanical models
of proximal femur for strength assessment
Name: McGuigan, Fiona
Laboratory visited: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Title of project: Linkage disequilibrium mapping of Loci synenic to
mouse BMD QTL’s by DNA poolingAbstract available here
Name: Mencej, Simona
Laboratory visited: Bone Research Lab, Edinburgh UK
Title of project: Functional analysis of TNFSF11 gene promoter region
polymorphisms
Abstract available here
Name: Moursi, Amr
Laboratory visited: Dept of Oral Pathology, Eastman Dental Inst, London
Title of project: The interaction between integrin- and cytokine-
mediated regulation of human osteoblasts
Name: Perron, Oliver
Laboratory visited: Molecular Medicine Centre, Western General, Edinburgh,
UK
Title of project: Role of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in bone
Name: Peruzzi, Barbara
Laboratory visited: Bone Musculoskeletal Programme, University of Aberdeen,
UK
Title of project: New therapeutic approaches to osteopetrosis
Name: Rauner, Martina
Laboratory visited: Philipps University Baldingerstr 1, Marburg, Germany
Title of project: The Role of 1mna in Osteoblast Development

Abstract available here

Name: Rucci, Nadia
Laboratory visited: Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Title of project: Use of an in vivo model to investigate the role
of c-Src in the development of osteolytic bone metastases
Name: Schroeter, Benedikt
Laboratory visited: Bone Research Group, Aberdeen, UK
Title of project: The effect of hCYR61 on the process of RANKL-dependent
osteoclast formation
Name: Shahtaheri, Seyed Mohsen
Laboratory visited: School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds
Title of project: “REAL” trabecular termini as loci of skeletal
weakness using a novel technique with special reference
to reproduction
Name: Vaughan, Tanya
Laboratory visited: Bone Research Laboratory, Aberdeen
Title of project: Effect of the RUNX2 alleles in postmenopausal women
Name: Dr Liesbeth van Wesenbeeck
Laboratory visited: Bone Research Group, Aberdeen, UK
Title of project: Functional characterization of the PLEKHM1 gene

Abstract available here

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