Coffee Shops are back: join Bo Abrahamsen for a Season’s Greetings Presidential Coffee Shop on 17 December, 4-5pm CET. Drop in with your winter chai and eggnog to reconnect with your friends in ECTS. Let us know you are joining by clicking here
ECTS 2020 Digital Congress On Demand: 3 months of education and science were not enough? ECTS 2020 registered delegates can still access on-demand Live Prime Time and ECTS@Home sessions.
ECTS 2021 Digital Congress – dates are now confirmed: Live Prime Time on 6-8 May 2021
Herbert Fleisch Workshop 2021 postponed to 2022 but series of virtual workshops will be organised. Registrations will be offered to ECTS members – Register your interest to participate
New webinar serieson recent developments in the field ofectopic calcification, from The EuroSoftCalcNet COST Action: Join the EuroSoftCalcNet Webinar series
December 15, 2020, 4:00 pm CET, Skin changes in pseudoxanthoma elasticum: then and now by Ludovic Martin
January 19, 2021, 4:00 pm CET, Generalized Arterial Calcification of Infancy by Frank Rutsch,
February 16, 2021, 4:00 pm CET, Vascular Calcification: A Window into Mechanisms and Treatments for Age-related Cardiovascular Disease by Cathy Shanahan
ECTS 2021 Abstract submission open – Submit your abstract by 11 January 2021. By Anna Teti
The ECTS 2020 Digital Congress is over and we are enjoying the wonderful evaluation we received by the delegates that participated to the survey. Thank you for supporting the ECTS attending our annual congress.
We have fine-tuned the ECTS 2021 programme based on your experience and needs and we are now ready to please you again with the ECTS 2021 congressthat will be held digitally due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic. The congress will have 3-days Live Prime Time on 6-8 May 2021, followed by 5-days of interactive ECTS@Home on 19-20 May, 10-11 and 18 June 2021.
More than ever, #ECTS2021 will be the place where scientific research and clinical practice meet!
ECTS recognises the need for all basic and clinical researchers in the musculoskeletal field in Europe to have access to funding via joint, cross-border initiatives, data sharing and multicentre studies including rare disease studies. To develop these plans, in June 2020 an exciting new initiative has been launched: the Central European Action group. Members of the action group currently come from Serbia, Czech Republic, Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Austria. The group is chaired by Gudrun Stenbeck with Petar Milovanovic and Radmila Matijevic co-chairing.
Words of farewell to the ECTS Newsletter. By Teun de Vries, Editor in Chief
The past three years have been my Editor in Chief years for the European Calcified Tissue Society Newsletter. When thinking of how it all started, the ingredients were an international phone call between Brussels, Amsterdam and L’Aquila, with Anna Teti and Roberta Mugnai, with a faulty connection, and before I could hear or say anything I was appointed as the new Editor in Chief.
For the newsletter, we had to find the right chemistry. What works fine, what does not? How long in advance should we plan our activities, who is responsible for what item? And, very important in team work: how can we exploit the qualities of the individual team members to the advantage of the Newsletter? I have introduced a much earlier deadline, one week before the “real” or old deadline. And that has reduced the deadline stress tremendously: if the article had not reached us by the 23rd of the month, we still had one extra week. Simple but efficient!
Perturbation of the bone marrow metabolism could be reversed by exercise intervention. By Cristiana Cipriani.
Among the several determinants of bone health, emerging evidence focused on the influence of bone marrow metabolism. The topic is addressed in human studies involving both healthy subjects and participants with different pathological conditions, particularly those associated with altered adipose tissue metabolism. The main perturbation of bone marrow metabolism that was found to significantly and negatively impact bone health was the increase in the adipose tissue content within the bone marrow. This evidence translates in a clinically relevant increase in fracture risk in conditions associated with augmented bone marrow adipose tissue, such as insulin resistance and diabetes.
Ojala et al. conducted an interesting study analyzing bone marrow metabolism in terms of glucose and free fatty acids uptake both at baseline and in response to exercise training in subjects with insulin resistance.
Coffee Shops are back: join Bo Abrahamsen for a Season’s Greetings Presidential Coffee Shop on 17 December, 4-5pm CET. Drop in with your winter chai and eggnog to reconnect with your friends in ECTS. Let us know you are joining by clicking here
ECTS 2020 Digital Congress On Demand: 3 months of education and science were not enough? ECTS 2020 registered delegates can still access on-demand Live Prime Time and ECTS@Home sessions.
ECTS 2021 Digital Congress – dates are now confirmed: Live Prime Time on 6-8 May 2021
Herbert Fleisch Workshop 2021 postponed to 2022 but series of virtual workshops will be organised. Registrations will be offered to ECTS members – Register your interest to participate
New webinar serieson recent developments in the field ofectopic calcification, from The EuroSoftCalcNet COST Action: Join the EuroSoftCalcNet Webinar series
December 15, 2020, 4:00 pm CET, Skin changes in pseudoxanthoma elasticum: then and now by Ludovic Martin
January 19, 2021, 4:00 pm CET, Generalized Arterial Calcification of Infancy by Frank Rutsch,
February 16, 2021, 4:00 pm CET, Vascular Calcification: A Window into Mechanisms and Treatments for Age-related Cardiovascular Disease by Cathy Shanahan
ECTS is thankful to its Corporate Members and other companies that have supported ECTS activities through unrestricted educational grants. These sponsors have in no way contributed to or influenced the content.
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Editor in chief: Teun De Vries (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Co-editors: Petar Milovanovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Cristiana Cipriani (Rome, Italy)
