Programme

Scientific programme (click to view PDF)

Abstracts  (click to view PDF)

Programme highlights

Symposia to include:

• Autoimmunity and the skeleton
• Cell signalling in the kidney
• Genetics of musculoskeletal diseases
• Matrix diseases
• Mineralisation
• Muscle and bone
• New horizons in osteoporosis therapies
• Scaffolds
• Stem cells and regenerative medicine
• Targeting intracellular pathways for matrix diseases
• Vitamin D

Plus:

• Clinical cases
• New Investigator session
• Rare bone diseases workshop 
• Muscle and bone workshop
   

Invited speakers

Meet the faculty

• Terry Aspray (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
• Paolo Bonaldo (Padova, Italy)
• Mike Briggs (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
• Tracy Briggs (Manchester, UK)
• Cyrus Cooper (Southampton/Oxford, UK)
• Matthew Dalby (Glasgow, UK)
• Colin Farquharson (Edinburgh, UK)
• Serge Ferrari (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Antonella Forlino (Pavia, Italy)
• Jenny Gregory (Aberdeen, UK)
• Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)
• Marco Narici (Nottingham, UK)
• Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden, Netherlands)
• Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez (Glasgow, UK)
• Liliana Schaefer (Frankfurt, Germany)
• Catherine Shanahan (London, UK)
• Molly Stevens (London, UK)
• Estelle Trifilieff (Basle, Switzerland)
• Wim Van Hul (Antwerp, Belgium)
• Joyce van Meurs (Rotterdam, Netherlands)