• Home
  • MyECTS
  • Become a member
  • Contact us

Ectsoc

Ecstoc.org

MENUMENU
  • About
    • Mission & Vision
    • Governance & Transparency
    • Board of Directors
    • Annual General Meeting
    • Committees and Action Groups
      • Executive Committee
      • Communications Committee
      • Community Engagement Committee
      • ECTS Academy
      • Education Committee
      • Clinical Science Committee
      • Research Committee
      • Scientific Programme Committee 2025
    • ECTS Team
    • Membership
      • Individual Membership
      • Corporate Supporters
      • Join us
      • Affiliated Societies
  • ECTS 2025
  • Events
    • Upcoming Congresses
    • Past Congress
    • ECTS Academy Charity Event
    • ICCBH
    • Events
  • Grants & Awards
  • Education
    • PhD Training Course
    • Clinical Training Course in Metabolic Bone Diseases
    • Rare Bone Diseases Webinars
    • Education Resource Center
    • Bone Muscle & Beyond Webinars
    • ECTS-Mellanby Training Course
    • Calendar ECTS Educational Events
  • ECTS Academy
    • About the ECTS Academy
    • ECTS Academy – Members
    • Call for Applications - Basic Scientists
    • Call for Applications - Clinicians
    • ECTS Academy Activities
      • NI Conference Program
      • ECTS Academy Webinar Series
      • ECTS Academy Mentoring Options
      • ECTS Academy Charity Run
    • Visit the ECTS Academy website
  • News
    • ECTS Newsletter
    • News
    • Press Release
    • Image Library
    • Video Library
    • Job Advertisements
You are here: Home / IFMRS news and initiatives – By Gudrun Stenbeck

IFMRS news and initiatives – By Gudrun Stenbeck

IFMRS, the International Federation for Musculoskeletal Research Societies, founded by ECTS and ASBMR, offers several exciting opportunities and tools for musculoskeletal researchers. ECTS members will be familiar with the IFMRS Big Data initiative from the ECTS meetings. This initiative has now led to an exciting new development for the research community, the Musculoskeletal Knowledge Portal (MSK-KP). MSK-KP, developed by the Broad Institute in collaboration with IFMRS, is an open-access genomic data mining platform for musculoskeletal traits and diseases (more info). It is designed to comprehensively gather and curate “big data” to make them accessible to all researchers. To find out more about this important new tool, visit the website and attend the IFMRS-ECTS joint session during the upcoming ECTS congress.

 

HubLE is the IFMRS e-learning platform (visit it). Launched in 2019, it is an amazing resource of useful information developed by young investigators for young investigators. Wide ranging information and media, from educational lectures in the form of HubLE Talks to HubLE ‘Methods’, provide relevant information in a fun and interactive format. Young investigators can also voice their opinion and views in ‘In a Nutshell’ and ‘HubLE Debates’. And the inspirational HubLE Campaign ‘Togetherness at Time of Covid-19’ offers support during these challenging times.

 

The other important IFMRS initiative aimed at next generation researchers is the biannual Herbert Fleisch Workshop, which brings together established international researchers and young /mid-career researchers to discuss data and, most importantly, to network. The next workshop will take place 14-16 March 2021 in Bruges, Belgium (More info) and ECTS is offering its new investigators travel grants to attend the meeting.

 

IFMRS has currently thirteen member societies that are all represented on the board. The ECTS board representative is Gudrun Stenbeck. IFMRS is led by the executive board and the new CEO Federico Moscogiuri (ceo@ifmrs.org) . In consultation with the board and the member societies, Federico has developed the new IFMRS 3-year Strategic Plan, which is based on 3 key pillars: Network, Knowledge and Influence. Central to the new plan is partnership: working with a broader range of organisations across the world and across the MSK spectrum. This will underpin IFMRS efforts to influence and raise the profile of all MSK conditions and MSK research at the international level, which is also expected to directly benefit the funding of MSK research. ECTS is delighted to be part of this genuinely global research alliance spanning the full range of MSK conditions.

Join ECTS or Renew your membership today!

Discount on annual congresses, exclusive advantages, training courses and so much more

Join or renew
Tweet
Copyright 2016 ECTS - Disclaimer - Cookies Policy - Privacy Policy - Privacy Centre - Terms of use - Contact us