Award winners

Congratulation to all the BRS Award Winners at the Oxford meeting:

Best oral:  OC22 - KA Staines (London) - STABILISING CARTILAGE TO PROTECT AGAINST OSTEOARTHRITIS PATHOLOGY: LESSONS FROM LONG BONE DEVELOPMENT

Best oral:  OC25 - MR Adams (Cardiff) - OESTRADIOL AND DHEA MAY INFLUENCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF OSTEONECROSIS IN ADOLESCENTS BEING TREATED WITH CORTICOSTEROIDS

Best oral poster:  OP3 – J Carrick (Oxford) - TARGETING ADIPONECTIN INCREASES OSTEOBLAST AND CHONDROCYTE DIFFERENTIATION AND FUNCTION VIA BOTH ADIPONECTIN RECEPTOR-1 AND -2

Best oral poster:  OP9 - SR James (York) - FUNCTIONAL SEGREGATION OF IMMUNOMODULATORY AND DIFFERENTIATION-COMPETENT MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELL POPULATIONS

Best poster:  P21 - P Mosali (London) - THE EFFECT OF VITAMIN D STATUS AND PTH ON THE RESPONSE TO ZOLEDRONATE

Best poster:  P83 – PE Garner (Leeds) - QUANTIFICATION OF CELL NETWORKS: COMPUTER-ASSISTED METHOD FOR 3D ASSESSMENT AND COMPARISON OF OSTEOCYTE SYNCITIA IN THE AGEING HUMAN FEMUR

 

New Investigator Awards:
(awarded prior to the meeting, based on scores achieved during the blind review process)

OC6 - SJ Allison (Loughborough) - HIGH IMPACT EXERCISE SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED THICKNESS OF THE SUPERIOR FEMORAL NECK CORTEX IN OLDER MEN, DESPITE ONLY MODEST CHANGES IN FEMORAL NECK AREAL BONE MINERAL DENSITY

OC43 - AL Evans (Sheffield) - VITAMIN D STATUS IN OBESITY: EVALUATION OF FREE 25(OH)D

OC39 - S Gohin (London) - THE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR L-NAME BLOCKS THE INCREASE IN LIMB PERFUSION INDUCED BY PARATHYROID HORMONE AND REDUCES THE ANABOLIC EFFECT OF PTH ON BONE

OC1 - CL Gregson (Bristol) FRACTURE RISK PERCEPTION AND 3-YEAR INCIDENT FRACTURE RATES AMONG POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN WITH A RANGE OF CO-MORBID DISEASE: FINDINGS FROM THE GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF OSTEOPOROSIS IN WOMEN (GLOW)

OC2 - KJ Oldknow (Edinburgh) - PHOSPHO1: AN EMERGING ROLE IN ENERGY METABOLISM

OC46 - D Zhu (Edinburgh) - BMP-9 INDUCES THE CALCIFICATION OF VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS