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Welcome to the February Edition of the ASBMR e-news! The new year is well underway and we have several important announcements to share with you. Please scroll down to read about important election results, meeting information and grant opportunities. We hope you enjoy reading the ASBMR e-news and welcome your suggestions and comments at asbmr@asbmr.org.

News

U.S.

House Passes Spending Bill to Increase NIH Budget by $620 Million
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill on January 31, 2007 that includes an increase in the NIH budget of $620 million for FY'07. This will reverse a projected decline in new NIH research project awards and support an additional 500 research project grants, 1,500 first time investigators, and expand funding for high-risk and high-impact research. It is anticipated that the Senate will pass the bill by February 15 and that the President will sign it. This is a tremendous accomplishment, and the ASBMR would like to thank everyone who participated and helped advocate for science.

President's FY'08 Budget Proposes Flat NIH Funding
On February 5 the President released his FY 2008 budget. His request for the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) calls for $28.9 billion, an increase of 0.8% over the $232 million estimate for FY 2007. If enacted it would be the 5th year in a row that NIH funding failed to keep pace with biomedical inflation (3.7%), but the net would be even less, since it includes $200 million to cover the Global AIDS fund. That would result in a net increase to the NIH budget of only $32 million, one tenth of a percent. ASBMR plans to work with FASEB and other biomedical research societies to advocate for an increased level of funding.

ASBMR Election Results
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2007 ASBMR Election: Marc K. Drezner, M.D. (United States) was elected President-Elect and will serve as President of the ASBMR during the 2008-2009 term. The new Councilors elected for 3-year terms are: Meryl Leboff, M.D. (United States), Laurie McCauley, D.D.S., Ph.D. (United States), and Stuart Ralston, MBChB, M.D. (United Kingdom). All will assume their roles on Council at the end of the ASBMR 29th Annual Meeting, which runs September 16-19, 2007, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Members also voted to approve the proposed bylaws change that will allow for better continuity in the office of Secretary-Treasurer.

ASBMR Call for Leadership Nominations—Deadline: April 4th
Want to get more involved? Then please consider nominating yourself or encouraging other ASBMR members to nominate themselves for one or more ASBMR leadership opportunities! This is a great opportunity to take on a more active role in your Society.

In the fall of 2007, new positions will become available on Council for President-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer Elect and Councilor (three positions), as well as on several programmatic committees, including the Ancillary Program, Education, Finance, Membership Development, Professional Practice, Publications, and Science Policy Committees. Council and Committee members all serve 3-year terms. Charges for all committees can be found on the ASBMR website.

The ASBMR strives for diversity with respect to Council and Committee membership (i.e. specialties, geographic locations, MDs and PhDs, academic, clinical practice or industry affiliation, gender and age) and specifically encourages international members and young investigators to nominate others or self-nominate.

For more information on how to apply or support a nomination, please visit the ASBMR website. All nomination materials must be received in the ASBMR Business office by Wednesday, April 4, 2007.

Thank you for your participation in this important process. We value your interest in serving your Society and advancing the field of bone and mineral metabolism!

Career Enhancement Award—Deadline February 28th!
The ASBMR Career Enhancement Awards (CEAs) are intended to foster the academic potential and careers of scientists in the bone and mineral field. There are two types of CEAs available: Collaborative Research Support Awards and Sabbatical Research Support Awards. Both awards are designed to strengthen the basic and/or translational research expertise of the awardees. The applicant must be a member of the ASBMR at the time of the application and the award.

The award winners will receive $35,000. The application deadline is Wednesday, February 28, 2007. For more information about both awards, including eligibility requirements and how to obtain an application form, please visit the ASBMR website.

Harold M. Frost Young Investigator Awards-Deadline: April 2nd

ASBMR is proud to continue its co-sponsorship of the ASBMR Harold M. Frost Young Investigator Awards with the International Sun Valley Hard Tissue Workshop. These awards of $1,500 each will allow six young investigators to participate in the 37th International Sun Valley Workshop on Skeletal Tissue Biology, August 5 – 8, 2007, in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA.

The 2007 ASBMR Harold M. Frost Young Investigator Awards application deadline is Monday, April 2, 2007. For more information about these awards, including eligibility requirements, or to obtain a nomination form, please visit the ASBMR website or the Sun Valley Workshop website.

ASBMR Awards—Deadline: May 1st!
Nominations are now being accepted for the following ASBMR awards: Fuller Albright Award, Louis V. Avioli Founders Award, William F. Neuman Award, Frederic C. Bartter Award, Shirley Hohl Service Award, Gideon A. Rodan Excellence in Mentorship Award, and the ASBMR Early Career Excellence in Teaching Award. All ASBMR members are eligible for the awards, except as restricted by specific award criteria. Nominations must be received at the ASBMR Business Office by Tuesday, May 1, 2007. The nomination guidelines and award descriptions are outlined on the ASBMR Website.

We encourage you to submit a nomination for one of your deserving colleagues. The ASBMR Awardees will be announced and honored at the ASBMR 29th Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, September 16-19, 2007.

Job Placement Program
Looking for a job? Or do you have a job opening that you need to fill? Then consider visiting the ASBMR Online Job Placement Service, which provides a special service to help employers fill vacant positions and allows candidates to post their resume online. With this free service, potential employers can search for numerous candidates online and contact them directly.

All job positions and descriptions can be viewed on the Job Placement Service website. We encourage you to take advantage of this valuable member benefit.

ASBMR Mourns the Passing of a Colleague and Friend
ASBMR is sad to announce the passing of our colleague and friend, Louis M. Sherwood. Lou worked for many years in academia and had a 15-year research career with Merck & Co. A fund has been created in support of Lou’s passion toward pharmaceutical medicine and clinical research. The fund will be administered through the Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators (AAPI), an affiliate of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP). Donations can be made to the Dr. Louis M. Sherwood Memorial Fund of ACRP/AAPI at 500 Montgomery Street, Suite 800, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA.

Meetings

This year’s ASBMR 29th Annual Meeting, September 16-19, 2007, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, will showcase ground-breaking program sessions and incentives. Don’t miss your opportunity to meet and mingle with more than 5,000 clinicians and researchers from around the world at the premier meeting for bone and mineral science.

Plus! All young investigator abstract submitters are eligible for travel grants of $400 each or Young Investigator Awards of $1,000 each. Click on the logo below for more details.

Don’t forget the abstract submission deadline for the ASBMR 29th Annual Meeting is Tuesday, April 17, 2006. You should have received your Call for Abstracts in the mail. For all the latest Annual Meeting information, including the official program and registration and hotel details, visit the ASBMR website at www.asbmr.org. See you in Hawaii!

ASBMR Meeting on Targeting Bone Remodeling for the Treatment of Osteoporosis

ASBMR is planning a two-day meeting on Targeting Bone Remodeling for the Treatment of Osteoporosis, which will be held December 6-7, 2007, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, USA.

This meeting will highlight the exciting new opportunities created by recent insights into the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating bone remodeling. Scientists and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines will explore evolving approaches and innovation that target bone remodeling and show promise for improving the treatment of Osteoporosis.

For the latest information regarding this meeting, please visit www.asbmr.org. We very much hope you'll join us in December!

Although the Contemporary Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D-Related Disorders Meeting is behind us, we are very pleased to provide the added benefit and educational opportunity to view the webcasts from the meeting that took place December 4-5, 2006, in Arlington, Virginia, USA.

The webcast features presentations from several sessions. Webcasts were made possible in part by an educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company, which had no control over its content. The webcasts are accessible via the ASBMR website.

Committee Highlights

ASBMR Education Committee
The ASBMR Education Committee considers the educational needs of all ASBMR members. The Committee achieves its goals by coordinating educational sessions at the ASBMR Annual Meeting and prepares educational materials for slide kits, websites, webcasting, videotapes, CD-ROMs, and other formats. At the 2007 Annual Meeting, the Education Committee in partnership with the Membership Development Committee will co-sponsor a Career Options for Scientists Workshop.

The Education Committee coordinates several educational tools for member use, including the ASBMR Bone Curriculum Webpage and the Primer Slide Kit. The Bone Curriculum Web Page is available for education purposes and can be used in the classroom for students from high school through medical school. The Slide Kit for the Primer on the Metabolic Bone Diseases and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism, Sixth Edition, can be found on the ASBMR website. Do you have suggestions for educational tools or meetings? We welcome your input and participation. Please contact the ASBMR Business Office at asbmr@asbmr.org.

Members in the News

ASBMR would like to congratulate the recipients of the 2006 Career Enhancement Award Winners.

"During my graduate and postdoctoral training, my scientific activity was mainly oriented toward bone cell biology and bone remodeling, with particular emphasis on regulation of osteoclast activity. As a new Assistant Professor, starting my own laboratory, I wanted to orient my efforts towards developing new bone therapeutic targets and analyzing them in an in vivo model. The ASBMR career enhancement award helped me to expand my skills into a translational field by learning new technologies in a medically relevant in vivo study model, i.e., skeletal metastasis. I thank the ASBMR for giving me a valuable opportunity to expand my expertise into tumor biology which I believe is fundamental to solidify my independent scientific career, and to provide me with research tools to be more competitive in acquiring extramural funding."

ASBMR Announces Its Two International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) Representatives
The ISCD has invited the ASBMR to appoint two representatives to serve as part of its two Position Development Conferences (PDC) in 2007. Aenor Sawyer, M.D., will serve as the ASBMR representative for the ISCD 2007 Children PDC occuring in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Children's Bone Health, June 20-21, 2007, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Clifford Rosen, M.D., will serve as the ASBMR representative for the ISCD 2007 PDC for Adults, July 20-22, 2007, in Lansdowne, Virginia, USA. Congratulations to both of them!

FASEB Receives 2007 Distinguished Service Award
The National Postdoctoral Association has awarded FASEB the 2007 Distinguished Service Award in recognition of its sustained contribution to improving the postdoctoral training experience. Receiving this award would not have been possible without the help of ASBMR members Philip Osdoby as Chair of the Careers and Training subcommittee of the FASEB Science Policy Committee and Nicola Partridge as former Vice-President for Science Policy of FASEB. Congratulations to FASEB and everyone who made winning this award possible.

NIH Grant Opportunities and Notices

The ASBMR is pleased to highlight the following announcements and grant opportunities from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH):

News
NIH has posted a number of resources online related to the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006, which was signed into law by President Bush. The site contains a letter from Dr. Zerhouni on his plans to implement the reauthorization legislation. Please visit the NIH website to access the letter.

The NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) has posted a new issue of ‘Peer Review Notes.’ To read the latest issue of this informative newsletter, please visit the CSR website.

Program Announcements
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (PA-07-106)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-106.html
Letters of Intent Receipt Date: Not applicable
Application Submission/Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.

Temporomandibular Joint and Muscle Disorders: Pathophysiological Mechanisms Linking Comorbid Conditions (R01) (PA-07-150)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-150.html
Letters of Intent Receipt Date: Not applicable
Application Submission/Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.

Oral Health of Special Needs and Older Populations (R01) (PA-07-151)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-151.html
Letters of Intent Receipt Date: Not Applicable
Application Submission/Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see application

Clinical Studies of Bisphosphonate Therapy and Osteonecrosis of the Jaws (R01)(PA-07-185)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-185.html
Letters of Intent Receipt Date: Not Applicable
Application Submission/Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see application

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine (R01) (PAR-07-270)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-270.html
Letters of Intent Receipt Date: Not Applicable
Application Submission/Receipt Date(s): February 20, June 20, October 22, 2007

Calendar of Events

The ASBMR is pleased to highlight the following meetings of bone and mineral-related organizations. Information regarding any of the listed events may be obtained directly from the meeting organizers using the contact information provided below. For a complete list of upcoming events, please visit the ASBMR events page. Event listings are posted as a courtesy to our sister organizations. If you know of, or are organizing a scientific bone and mineral-related meeting that you would like included on the ASBMR Events Calendar, please e-mail the meeting details ASBMR for consideration at asbmr@asbmr.org.

February 2007

February 11-14, 2007
53rd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, California
For more information contact:
Phone: +1 (847) 698-1625
E-mail: ors@ors.org
Website: www.ors.org

March 2007

March 14-17, 2007
International Society for Clinical Densitometry
13th Annual Meeting
Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina
Tampa, Florida, USA
For more information, contact:
Phone: +1 (860) 586-7563
Fax: +1 (860) 586-7550
E-mail: info@iscd.org
Website: www.iscd.org

March 21-24, 2007
International & American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR)
85th General Session & Exhibition
Ernest N. Morial Center
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
For more information please contact:
Phone: +1 (703) 548-0066
E-mail: meetings@iadr.org
Website: www.dentalresearch.org

March 28-31, 2007
7th European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis
and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO)
Porto, Portugal
For more information please contact:
Website: www.ecceo7.org

September

September 16-19, 2007
American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
29th Annual Meeting
Hawaii Convention Center
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
For more information, contact:
Phone: +1 (202) 367-1161
Fax: +1 (202) 367-1161
E-mail: asbmr@asbmr.org
Website: www.asbmr.org

December

December 6-7, 2007
ASBMR Meeting on Targeting Bone Remodeling
for the Treatment of Osteoporosis
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, DC, USA
For more information, contact:
Phone: +1 (202) 367-1161
Fax: +1 (202) 367-1161
E-mail: asbmr@asbmr.org
Website: www.asbmr.org

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