As a result of the successful congress in Prague in May 2006, The European Calcified Tissue Society, in collaboration with the Czech Society for Metabolic Diseases, provided 3 Research grants for Eastern Europe of 40,000 Euro each.
These grants were intended for PhD students who are resident in Eastern Europe to complete their research projects, either at their home university or abroad, over a period of 2 years.
The following students were successful in gaining one of these grants, and the results and publications are available below.
Bernadett Balla, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Project Title: Molecular background of fibrous dysplasia and idiopathic femoral head necrosis
Publications resulting from research
Gene expression patterns in the bone tissue of women with fibrous dysplasia. Kiss J, Balla B, Kósa JP, Borsy A, Podani J, Takács I, Lazáry A, Nagy Z, Bácsi K, Kis A, Szlávy E, Szendroi M, Speer G, Orosz L, Lakatos P. Am J Med Genet A. 2010 Sep;152A(9):2211-20.
Gene expression changes in femoral head necrosis of human bone tissue. Bernadett Balla, Csaba Pintér, János P. Kósa, János Podani, István Takács, Zsolt Nagy, Gábor Speer, Balázs Horváth, László Korányi and Péter Lakatos Accepted for publication – Disease Markers: DMA1004, February 01, 2011.
Jaanika Kumm, University of Tartu, Estonia
Project title: Early stage knee osteoarthritis: involvement of bone, cartilage and synovium – longitudinal and cross-sectional study
Publications resulting from research
Association between Ultrasonographic Findings and Bone/Cartilage Biomarkers in Patients with Early-Stage Knee Osteoarthritis. Jaanika Kumm, Ann Tamm, Mare Lintrop, Agu Tamm. Calcif Tissue Int 2009; 85:514-22.
Impact of cryopreservation on serum concentration of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)-7, TIMP-1, vascular growth factors (VEGF) and VEGF-R2 in Biopank samples. Kalle Kisand, Irina Kerna, Jaanika Kumm, Helgi Jonsson, Agu Tamm. Clin Chem Lab Med 2010.
Poster presentations at conferences :
The association between biomarkers of bone metabolism and radiographic features in early knee osteoarthritis. J.Kumm, A.E. Tamm, M.Lintrop, A.O.Tamm European Conference on Calcified Tissues, Vienna, Austria, May 2009.
(II) Knee OA progression during 6 years follow-up: the prognostic value of bone and cartilage biomarkers. J.Kumm, A.E.Tamm, M.Lintrop, A.O.Tamm World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Montreal Canada, Sept. 2009.
(III) Turnover of collagen type I and II in early knee osteoarthritis: 6 years longitudinal study. A.O.Tamm, J. Kumm, M.Lintrop, M.Vija, Ü.Hansen, A.E.Tamm 7.Baltic Bone and Cartilage Conference, Nyborg, Denmark, August 2009.
(IV) The predictive role of ultrasonographically detected synovitis in the radiographic progression of early knee osteoarthritis. J.Kumm, A.E.Tamm, M.Lintrop, A.O.Tamm European Conference on Calcified Tissues, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2010.