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European Calcified Tissue Society 2013 Congress

Written by BCI Staff | May 15, 2013 8:00:00 AM

European Calcified Tissue Society 50th Anniversary Congress

Congress - Lisbon, Portugal

The 2013 congress will offer a high quality and diverse scientific programme of interest to both clinical and pre-clinical scientists. We are expecting up to 2,500 clinicians and researchers from around the world to join us in Lisbon. This will be a special congress for the ECTS as we will be celebrating our 50th anniversary!

Symposium 1: Developmental origins of metabolic bone disease
1) Developmental epigenetics and the intrauterine origins of chronic disease
2) Maternal environment and intrauterine skeletal development

Symposium 2: Muscles and bone
1) Skeletal muscle loss: cachexia, sarcopenia, and inactivity
2) Medical treatment of frailty

Symposium 3 Extreme bone phenotypes
1) Skeletal dysplasia
2) Diagnosis and clinical management of skeletal dysplasia

Symposium 4: Energy metabolism and bone
1) Osteocalcin and glucose metabolism
2) Diabetes and osteoporosis treatment

Symposium 5: Uncoupling of resorption and formation
1) Novel antiresorptives – uncoupling or not?
2) Effects of cathepsin K inhibition

Workshop 1: Fat and bone

Workshop 2: Developmental biology and bone

Workshop 3: Vertebral fractures

Workshop 4: Osteoclast activity and haematopoiesis

Workshop 5: Anabolic bone therapies

Workshop 6: Cancer cells and bone

(Courtesy of Lisbon, Portugal, via paulojorgevieira.wordpress.com)

http://www.ectscongress.org/2013/default.htm

Sat, May 18, 2013 - Tue, May 21, 2013

Lisbon Conference Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

Email: ects2013@mci-group.com

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