9th Annual Retreat of the Musculoskeletal Axis
Organizer: Dr. Richard Kremer
When: Thursday March 14, 2013.
Where: At the 91社区 Faculty Club at 3450 McTavish Street, Montreal, Quebec
Who will attend: There will be approximately 100 guests attending the morning session and the afternoon session. This will mainly include endocrinologists, internists, rheumatologist, orthopedic surgeons as well as scientists, students, residents and post-doctoral fellows. However, anybody interested in musculoskeletal research and its clinical applications is welcome to attend.
E-mail registration due by March 5, 2013
The registration is free.
Meeting at a glance (a full program will follow):
Morning session:
Bone Strength:聽 Assessment and therapeutic targeting.
Lunch Break and Poster Presentation. This will be an opportunity for students, residents and post-docs to present their work and get feedback from attendees. In addition, posters will be reviewed by three judges during the lunch break and 4 out of 20 posters will be selected for an award.
Award presentation will take place at the end of the Symposium
Afternoon session:
Bone, cartilage and muscle: breakdown and repair
Invited Speakers and topics covered:
Dr. Jake Barralet 鈥淣ovel implant strategies in bone and cartilage repair鈥�
Dr. Giovanni DiBattista 鈥淕-protein coupled receptor-controlled signalosome:聽 A proteomic analysis.鈥�
Dr. Vicente Gilsanz 鈥淎 general review of imaging tools in screening bone, muscle, and fat.鈥�
Dr. David Goltzman聽聽 鈥淣ovel therapeutic targets in osteoporosis.鈥�
Dr. Geoffrey Hendy 鈥淩ole of menin in bone development.鈥�
Dr. Boris Janos 鈥淢yostatin: a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of skeletal muscle wasting.鈥�
Dr. Andrew Karaplis 鈥淩ole of the PTHrP in bone and cartilage development鈥�
Dr. Ben Leder鈥� Is there an advantage of combining anabolic and antiresorptive agents in oosteoporosis?鈥�
Dr. Suzanne Morin 鈥淟ong-term effects of bisphosphonates.鈥�
Dr. Anie Philip 鈥淭argeting TGF-beta聽pathway to improve skin and cartilage repair.鈥�
Dr. Ren茅 St-Arnaud 鈥淐haracterization of a new signal transduction cascade downstream from PTH in bone.鈥�
Sponsors: Amgen, Lilly, RSBO, 91社区 CBPR and the MSK Axis of the MUHC
