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 News & PublicationsMedia AlertEMBARGOED UNTIL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 @ 1:00 PM EDT |
| Contact: | Stephanie West: (202) 367-1219, swest@asbmr.org September 15-19: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA (215) 418-2028 |
| WHAT: | Media briefing announcing the latest science on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and other bone and mineral diseases, as well as basic bone biology, that will be presented at the ASBMR 28 th Annual Meeting. |
| WHEN: | Friday, September, 15, 12:00 p.m. EDT, Room 102A (Annual Meeting dates September, 15-19) |
| WHO: | Matthew Allen, Ph.D. , Microdamage Is Self-Limiting in Beagles Treated for Three Years with Clinical Doses of Alendronate |
| Janet Hock, BDS, Ph.D. , Feasibility Clinical Trial: Early Results Show Healing of Recalcitrant Non-Union Fractures Using Autologous Tissue Repair Cells, a Bone Marrow-Derived Tissue Enriched for Adult Stem and Progenitor Cells | |
| Michael Holick, Ph.D., M.D. , Vitamin D Content in Fish is Highly Variable: Farm Salmon Is Not a Good Source | |
| Sanna-Maria Käkönen, M.Sc., Ph.D. , The Multi-Target Tumor Growth Inhibitor™ (MTGI™), Inhibits Osteolysis and Tumor Burden in a Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis Model | |
| Chris Paszty , M.Sc., Ph.D. , Administration of Sclerostin Monoclonal Antibodies to Female Cynomolgus Monkeys Results in Increased Bone Formation, Bone Mineral Density and Bone Strength | |
| Eileen Shore , Ph.D. , Mutations in the BMP Type I Receptor ACVR1 in Patients with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) |
For meeting registration information, please contact Stephanie West at swest@asbmr.org 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 5,000 participants are expected to attend the September 15-19 meeting, where nearly 1,800 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.
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