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Meet the Professor
A number of Meet the Professor sessions will be held on
Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday from 13:00-14:00. Numbers will be limited to
50 per session to encourage audience participation.
Sunday 25 May
Laura Calvi (Rochester, USA)
Bone marrow stem cell interactions
Juliet Compston (Cambridge, UK):
Development of guidelines
for the treatment of osteoporosis
Lorenz Hofbauer (Dresden, Germany):
The RANKL/RANK/OPG system
in health and disease
Richard Oreffo (Southampton, UK):
Skeletal Tissue Engineering
Ian Reid (Auckland, New Zealand):
Paget's disease of bone
Monday 26 May
Maria Luisa Bianchi (Milan, Italy)
Managing osteoporosis
in children
Steven Cummings (San Francisco, USA):
Is long-term use of bisphosphonates
for osteoporosis safe?
Roberto Pacifici (Atlanta, USA):
Regulation of bone metabolism
by t-cells
Elizabeth Shane (New York, USA):
Transplant osteoporosis
Andre Uitterlinden (Rotterdam, Netherlands):
Genotyping technologies
and applications
Tuesday 27 May
Claus Glüer (Kiel, Germany):
The use of physical measurements
of bone to assess fracture risk
Clemens Löwik (Leiden, Netherlands):
In vivo molecular imaging in preclinical bone research
Frank Luyten (Leuven, Belgium):
Cell-based therapies: from
bench to bedside
Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden, Netherlands):
Bisphosphonates for the
treatment of osteoporosis: recent developments
Tim Spector (London, UK):
What can we learn by studying
twins?
An outline of the topics and objectives for each session
can be seen by clicking on the above links.
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