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Contact:    Melissa Haynes: (202) 367-1219; mhaynes@smithbucklin.com
What: The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 27th Annual Meeting
When: September 23-27th, 2005
Where:

ASBMR Media Room, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville, TN, USA

The ASBMR 27th Annual Meeting offers a comprehensive scientific program, presenting groundbreaking research and new clinical treatments in bone diseases and disorders of mineral metabolism, including osteoporosis treatment and prevention.

This year’s Annual Meeting, held in Nashville, Tennessee, September 23-27, brings together some 5,300 researchers and clinicians from 60 countries.

Highlights include two Plenary Lectures, two Plenary Symposia (on clinical, basic, and translational topics), 12 State-of-the-Art Lectures, four Mini-Symposia, nearly 200 oral presentations, approximately 1,800 poster presentations, and 27 Meet-the-Professor Sessions.

Topics covered at the meeting will include:

  • Bone and mineral complications of chronic kidney disease
  • New trends in the molecular imaging of bone
  • Secondary causes of osteoporosis including gastrointestinal diseases and osteoporosis after treatment of breast cancer
  • The role of the vasculature in bone quality
  • Modeling skeletal disease in genetically engineered mice
  • Diseases of phosphate homeostasis
  • Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of stress fractures

Media Briefing
A panel of experts will discuss the latest scientific advances in bone and mineral research on Friday, September 23, 2005, at 12:00 p.m. CDT.

For registration information and to receive an embargoed media kit before the meeting, please contact
Melissa Haynes at mhaynes@smithbucklin.com or at (202) 367-1219.

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The ASBMR Annual Meeting is the pre-eminent scientific meeting on bone and mineral metabolism. More than 5,300 delegates are expected to attend the September 23-27 meeting, where approximately 1,900 scientific abstracts are presented. The ASBMR is the premier professional, scientific and medical society established to promote excellence in bone and mineral research and to facilitate the translation of that research into clinical practice. The ASBMR has a membership of nearly 4,000 physicians, basic research scientists, and clinical investigators. To learn more about the Society and the field of bone and mineral research, visit the ASBMR website at www.asbmr.org.