ASBMR e-News Weekly: November 12, 2020 Edition

For the past four years, ASBMR has offered grants through the ASBMR Fund for Research and Education to help promising young scientists and physician-scientists in the bone field who are currently seeking to learn a new technique or to obtain additional funding to successfully complete a project. We’ve never been as committed to the success of that fund as we are today, which is why we are excited to share some important news.
 
As part of #GivingTuesday, held Tuesday, December 1, ASBMR will be generously matching all donations to the ASBMR Fund for Research and Education up to $25,000 USD. Will YOU join us?
 

Register Today for Next Week's ASBMR Webinar with Kenneth White, Ph.D.,
on Tuesday, November 17 at 1:00 PM EST
 

You can still register for next Tuesday’s webinar with Kenneth White, Ph.D., presenting “FGF23: New Information about the Hormone and Disorders Related to It and Treatment,” at 1:00 PM EST. This webinar will offer one free CME. Please click here for more information and to register.
 
Miss last week’s webinar with Dr. Nelson Watts? You can catch the recording here, as well all previous ASBMR webinars, in the ASBMR Education Resource Center.

Tune in to Next Week’s MTP Session with Clemens Bergwitz, M.D.,
on Thursday, November 19 at 11:00 AM EST
 

Catch the next Meet the Professor (MTP) session with Clemens Bergwitz, M.D., leading an interactive discussion on “Update on HHRH and Other Phosphate Disorders,” on Thursday, November 19, at 11:00 AM EST.
 
Led by experienced clinicians and scientists on specific clinical and research topics, the MTP sessions feature an informal discussion around cases, problems, or questions unique to the topic. All registered attendees to the ASBMR 2020 Annual Meeting - Virtual Event can participate for free in the 14 virtual MTP sessions being held weekly through December 2020. For more information on the ASBMR 2020 MTP Series, including the complete schedule, visit the ASBMR 2020 Annual Meeting site.
 
If you did not register to attend the Annual Meeting – Virtual Event and are an ASBMR member interested in attending one or more of these sessions, please email abstracts@asbmr.org to get access!

The ASBMR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee invites you to the next session of the ASBMR Member Spotlight Series on Thursday, November 19 at 3:00 PM EST. Tune in as Fabrizio Pin, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the Indiana University School of Medicine presents on the mechanistic effects of RANKL in cachexia and identifies RANKL as a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of musculoskeletal complications associated with non-metastatic RANKL-expressing cancers. Our second presenter is Dr. Bruno Ferraz-de-Souza, M.D., Ph.D., attending Physician and tenured PI at the University of Sao Paulo. Dr. Ferraz-de-Souza’s research focuses on identifying the genetic basis of bone fragility at the individual level in the Brazilian population, which is ethnically mixed and underrepresented in published genetic studies. If you would like to participate in next week's session or plan to attend a future session, you can register here. 
 
All ASBMR members are invited to present and attend these sessions, and we also highly encourage you to nominate colleagues to present their research at a future spotlight session. Please click here for more information about the series, and to register as a participant or presenter.

For more information on the speakers from every session and to access recordings of previous sessions, please click here. 

JBMR Invites New Original Submissions Advancing
Bone Health in Cancer for an Upcoming Special Section
 

Therapeutic advances in oncology have led to a larger number of long-term cancer survivors. However, in many cases, cancer treatment directly or indirectly exerts negative effects on bone biology, and affected patients are prone to an increased risk of bone loss, osteoporosis, and consequent fractures. Even in highly prevalent conditions, too many patients remain undertreated and questions regarding choice and duration of osteoprotective treatment remain. Guest Editor and JBMR® Deputy Editor Lorenz Hofbauer, M.D., invites your original papers and reviews that deal with the various aspects of epidemiology, health economics, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of bone disease related to cancer. Please visit the ASBMR Publications Hub for more details and to submit your paper today!

Professor Bente Langdahl, M.D., Ph.D., and Ph.D. student Anne Sophie Sølling, of Aarhus University, Denmark, will present on Denosumab discontinuation at the next ASBMR Early-Stage Investigator Clinical Case Workshop,Tuesday, December 15, at 2:00 PM EDT.

This new clinical case workshop series aims to engage clinical fellows/trainees in stimulating discussion around musculoskeletal topics, and attendees are encouraged to ask written questions (via a chat function) to allow for a more interactive style. Click here to register!

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) has enhanced efforts to help you stay on top of the latest funding opportunities. Subscribe to NIAMS Funding News and NIAMS Funding Alerts – two new resources highlighting the latest on funding opportunities, resources and news from the.  You can click here to subscribe.
 
You can also follow the NIAMS Funding Twitter account for the latest on NIAMS grants and funding information.