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Fourth Annual Skeletal Research Symposium – June 12, 2018

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Invited Speakers

Special Session for Young Investigators and Post-docs:

“Combining Clinical and Translational Research in Endocrinology”
An informal meeting with Dr. Dolores Shoback, a leading clinical/translational investigator who has also served as President of the ASBMR and leader of multiple guideline panels. She will share her perspective on combining translational perspectives with clinical investigation; this should be of interest both to patient-based and laboratory-based investigators.

Keynote Speakers:

“Dysregulation of Skeletal Matrix and Cell signaling in Human Skeletal Dysplasias”
Brendan Lee, M.D., Ph.D. 
Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics
Professor and Chairman
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

“Translational Studies of the Calcium-Sensing Receptor in the Parathyroid Gland and Bone”
Dolores Shoback, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Department of Endocrine Research, San Francisco VA Medical Center

Pilot and Feasibility Studies Speakers:

“The effects of caloric restriction on bone formation and mTOR signaling”
Frank C. Ko, Ph.D.
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital

“Targeting sclerostin in multiple myeloma-induced bone disease”
Michaela Reagan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Faculty Scientist I, Maine Medical Center Research Institute

Poster Winners
  • Student Category
    Eileen Daley, PhD student
    Institution:  Boston University School of Dental Medicine
    Title:  Incretin Dysregulation of Lysyl Oxidase: A Novel Mechanisms for Diabetic Osteopenia
  • Early Investigator
    Carolyne Falank, PhD
    Institution: Maine Medical Center Research Institute
    Title:  New Bone Cell Type Identified as Driver of Drug Resistance in Multiple Myeloma:  The Bone Marrow Adipocyte
  • Other: Everyone else –  This category resulted in a tie.
    Terence Capellini, PhD
    Institution: Harvard UniversityTitle:  When Evolution Hurts: Height, Osteoarthritis, and the Regulation of GDF5
  • Tadatoshi Sato, PhD
    Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
    Title:  A FAK/class IIa HDAC Signaling Axis Controls Osteocyte Mechanotransduction
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Symposium Locations

Massachusetts General Hospital
Simches Research Building and Starr Center
185 Cambridge Street, 2nd and 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02114

Symposiums

  • Fifth Annual Skeletal Research Symposium – May 13, 2019January 2019 - 7:40 pm
  • Fourth Annual Skeletal Research Symposium – June 12, 2018April 2018 - 1:29 pm
  • Third Annual Skeletal Research Symposium – 2017July 2017 - 5:32 pm
  • Second Annual Skeletal Research Symposium – 2016June 2016 - 5:12 pm
  • First Annual Skeletal Research Symposium – 2015June 2015 - 5:09 pm

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    June 1 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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    June 8 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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