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Abstract submission closed on 12 January 2009.

If you have submitted an abstract and have a query please contact the abstract administrator at ects2009abs@mci-group.com.

Each abstract has been scored blind by a minimum of 5 reviewers according to the following criteria:

• The scientific merit of the abstract
• Suitable sample size and proper statistical analysis
• Adherence to instructions
• Originality of work

Accepted abstracts will be published in a supplement to BONE Volume 44, Supplement 2, June 2009 which will be distributed at the Conference.

ABSTRACT REVIEW PANEL

• Bone Development and Tissue Engineering
• Florent Elefteriou (Nashville, USA)
• Franz Jakob (Wuerzburg, Germany)
• Marcel Karperien (Leiden, Netherlands)
• Moustapha Kassem (Odense, Denmark)
• Andre van Wijnen (Worcester, USA)

• Cancer and Metabolic Bone Disease other than Osteoporosis
• Maria Luisa Bianchi (Milan, Italy)
• Brendan Boyce (Rochester, USA)
• Gertrudis Carmeliet (Leuven, Belgium)
• Marco Cecchini (Berne, Switzerland)
• Simone Cenci (Milan, Italy)
• Philippe Clézardin (Lyon, France)
• Nathalie Franchimont (Lucerne, Switzerland)
• Patrick Garnero (Lyon, France)
• Uwe Kornak (Berlin, Germany)
• Nadia Rucci (L'Aquila, Italy)
• Larry Suva (Little Rock, USA)

• Cell biology: Osteoblasts, Osteocytes and Bone Formation
• Tim Skerry (Sheffield, UK)
• Roland Baron (Boston, USA)
• Chantal Chenu (London, UK)
• Roberto Civitelli (St Louis, USA)
• Jillian Cornish (Auckland, New Zealand)
• Larry Fisher (Bethseda, USA)
• Dick Heinegard (Lund, Sweden)
• Pierre Marie (Paris, France)
• Luigi Moro (Trieste, Italy)
• Pam Robey (Bethseda, USA)
• Hans van Leeuwen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

• Cell biology: Osteoclasts and Bone Resorption
• Tim Arnett (London, UK)
• Tim Chambers (London, UK)
• Peter Grabowski (Sheffield, UK)
• Miep Helfrich (Aberdeen, UK)
• Peter Pietschmann (Vienna, Austria)
• Mike Rogers (Aberdeen, UK)
• Anna Teti (L'Aquila, Italy)
• Kalervo Väänänen (Turku, Finland)
• Rob van 't Hof (Edinburgh, UK)

• Genetics
• Omar Albagha (Edinburgh, UK)
• Maria Luisa Brandi (Florence, Italy)
• Matthew Brown (Brisbane, Australia)
• Emma Duncan (Brisbane, Australia)
• Luigi Gennari (Siena, Italy)
• Daniel Grinberg (Barcelona, Spain)
• Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK)
• Andre Uitterlinden (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• Wim van Hul (Antwerp, Belgium)

• Hormones, including Oestrogen, Vitamin D, PTHRP
• Roger Bouillon (Leuven, Belgium)
• Peter Burckhardt (Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Lorenz Hofbauer (Dresden, Germany)
• Shigeaki Kato (Tokyo, Japan)
• Klaus Klaushofer (Vienna, Austria)
• Paul Lips (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Masaki Noda (Tokyo, Japan)
• Norbert Schuetze (Wuerzburg, Germany)

• Osteoporosis: Evaluation
• Judith Adams (Manchester, UK)
• Kristina Åkesson (Lund, Sweden)
• Claus Christiansen (Ballerup, Denmark)
• Kaare Gautvik (Oslo, Norway)
• Claus Glüer (Kiel, Germany)
• Nuria Guanabens (Barcelona, Spain)
• René Rizzoli (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Jan Stepan (Prague, Czech Republic)
• Jonathan Tobias (Bristol, UK)

• Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology and Epidemiology
• Cyrus Cooper (Southampton, UK)
• Marie Christine de Vernejoul (Paris, France)
• Serge Ferrari (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)
• Roberto Pacifici (Atlanta, USA)
• Larry Raisz (Farmington, USA)
• Ulrich Trechsel (Basel, Switzerland)
• Tjeerd van Staa (London, UK)

• Osteoporosis: Treatment
• Jonathan Adachi (Hamilton, Canada)
• Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK)
• Roger Francis (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
• Piet Geusens (Diepenbeek, Netherlands)
• Eugene McCloskey (Sheffield, UK)
• Leif Mosekilde (Aarhus, Denmark)
• Xavier Nogues (Barcelona, Spain)
• David Reid (Aberdeen, UK)
• Christian Roux (Paris, France)
• Peter Selby (Manchester, UK)