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Daily Programmes: Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday

 
MONDAY 25 MAY, 2009

08:00 – 09:00

 

SYMPOSIUM 3: Falls

Chairs: Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden, Netherlands)
Elisabeth Preisinger (Vienna, Austria)

08:00

IS11

FALLS RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Tash Masud (Nottingham, UK)

08:30

IS12

PREVENTION OF FRACTURES BY HIP PROTECTORS
Douglas Kiel (Boston, USA)

09:00 – 10:00

 

ORALS 3: Osteoporosis pathophysiology

Chairs: Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden, Netherlands)
Elisabeth Preisinger (Vienna, Austria)

10:00 – 11:15

 

COFFEE & POSTERS (EVEN NUMBERS ATTENDED)

11:15 – 12:45

 

WORKSHOP 2: Non-canonical Wnt signaling

Chairs: Roland Baron (Boston, USA)
Franz Varga (Vienna, Austria)

11:15

IS13

NON-CANONICAL WNT SIGNALLING: AN OVERVIEW
Michael Kühl (Ulm, Germany)

11:45

IS14

A NON-CANONICAL WNT SIGNAL INDUCES OSTEOBLASGENESIS THROUGH ATTENUATING PPARGAMMA-MEDIATED ADIPOGENESIS
Shigeaki Kato (Tokyo, Japan)

12:15

IS15

ON NON-CANONICAL WNT SIGNALING CASCADES: INSIGHTS FROM OSTEOGENIC CELLS
Fanxin Long (Saint Louis, USA)

11:15 – 12:45

 

WORKSHOP 3: What we have learnt from cohort studies?

Chairs: Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)
Harald Dobnig (Graz, Austria)

11:15

IS16

COMPARISON TO CLINICAL TRIAL INFORMATION
Jane Cauley (Pittsburgh, USA)

11:45

IS17

SEX STEROIDS IN THE REGULATION OF BONE METABOLISM IN MEN
Claes Ohlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden)

12:15

IS18

THE BENEFITS OF COMBINING COHORTS FOR MEGA-ANALYSIS
Eugene McCloskey (Sheffield, UK)

12:45 – 14:00

 

LUNCH & POSTERS

12:45 – 13:15

 

ECTS AGM
All members are invited to attend the AGM and drinks reception

13:00 – 14:00

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR SESSIONS

14:00 – 15:00

 

SYMPOSIUM 4: Mesenchymal stem cells

Chairs: Hans van Leeuwen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Peter Pietschmann (Vienna, Austria)

14:00

IS19

MATRIX ELASTICITY DIRECTS STEM CELL LINEAGE - SOLUBLE FACTORS THAT LIMIT OSTEOGENESIS
Dennis Discher (Philadelphia, USA)

14:30

IS20

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS
Franz Jakob (Wuerzburg, Germany)

15:00 – 15:12

 

ECTS CAREER ESTABLISHMENT AWARD(S)
ECTS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD(S)

15:12 – 16:12

 

ORALS 4: Osteoblasts and bone formation

Chairs: Hans van Leeuwen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Peter Pietschmann (Vienna, Austria)

16:12 – 16:42

 

COFFEE BREAK

16:42 – 17:30

 

ORAL POSTERS 2: Clinical

Chairs: Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK)
Hans Peter Dimai (Graz, Austria)

16:42 – 17:30

 

ORAL POSTERS 2: Basic

Chairs: Miep Helfrich (Aberdeen, UK)
Heide Cross (Vienna, Austria)

17:30 – 18:00

 

BREAK

18:00 – 19:30

 

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM 6
Moving beyond conventional antiresorptives

SUPPORTED BY MSD

Chair: Roland Baron (Boston, USA)

MUSCULOSKELETAL HEALTH AND VITAMIN D
Heike Bischoff-Ferrari (Zurich, Switzerland)

ODANACATIB: A NOVEL ANTIRESORPTIVE AGENT
Michael McClung (Portland, USA)

NEW APPROACHES TO OSTEOANABOLIC THERAPY
John Bilezikian (New York, USA)

FOLLOWED BY BUSES TO SOCIAL EVENTS

20:00 – 21:30

 

GALA CONCERT AT THE VIENNA KONZERTHAUS

20:00 – 22:00

 

ECTS FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT

 

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