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Friday, 12 May

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08:00 - 08:30 Poster viewing
08:30 - 09:30   Symposium 3: THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND BONE
    I012  Paul Emery (Leeds, UK)
Impact of cytokine blockade on joint and bone destruction
    I013  Hiroshi Takayanagi (Tokyo, Japan):
Mechanisms of osteoclast activation by rankl and costimulatory ligands: novel role of NFAT in bone homeostasis
09:30 - 10:30   Oral Communications 4: OSTEOCLASTS
    Coffee
11:00 - 12:30  

Workshop 3: FRACTURE HEALING

    I014  Thomas Einhorn (Boston, USA)
Local therapies for the enhancement of fracture healing
    I015  David Little (Sydney, Australia)
Therapeutic manipulation of the anabolic and catabolic responses in fracture repair
    I016  Slobodan Vukicevic (Zagreb, Croatia)
Bone morphogenetic proteins
    Workshop 4: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
    I017  Hans Westerhoff (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Systems biology: robustness through adaptation and regeneration
    I018  Pierre de Meyts (Gentofte, Denmark)
Understanding diabetes pathogenesis: the need for systems biology
    I019  Ursula Klingmüller (Heidelberg, Germany)
Dynamic pathway modeling of the JAK-STAT and SMAD signaling cascades
12:30 - 14:00   Lunch & Posters
The following posters will be attended 13:00-14:00
  Cancer and Metabolic Bone Diseases other than Osteoporosis   P183-P237
  Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology, Genetics and Epidemiology   P238-P337
12:30 - 13:00   ECTS AGM
13:00 - 14:00   Meet the Professor Sessions
14:00 - 15:00   Symposium 4: MINERALISATION
    I020  Thorsten Kirsch (Baltimore, USA)
Cellular regulation of mineralisation
    I021  Matt Brown (Brisbane, Australia)
Genetics
15:00 - 16:00  

Oral Communications 5: OSTEOBLASTS AND BONE FORMATION

    Coffee
16:30 - 17:30   Short Oral Communications 1
    Break
18:00 - 19:30  

Satellite Symposium 5 - EVOLVING CONCEPTS IN BONE HEALTH: RANK/RANKL/OPG AS A THERAPEUTIC TARGET
supported by Amgen

20:30   Cultural Event /
ECTS Football Tournament

Saturday

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