Deadline for abstracts: 11 February 2005
For full details and abstract submission form please see the Symposium website.
Speakers to include:
Roland Baron (New Haven, USA): Approaches to anabolic agents for bone
Roger Bouillon (Leuven, Belgium): Advances in Vitamin D pharmacology
Henry Bryant (Indianapolis, USA): SERMs Where next?
Hal Ebetino (Cincinnati, USA): The applications of phosphonate chemistry to bone pharmacology
Lorie Fitzpatrick (Thousand Oaks, USA): Therapeutic strategies based on blockade of the RANKL/RANK/OPG system
Ross Garrett (San Antonio, USA): Approaches to anabolic drugs via statins and the proteasome pathways
Anthony Hollander (Bristol, UK): Engineering new tissues for bone and joint disease
Stephen Krane (Boston USA): Current and future therapies in arthritis and connective tissue disease
Donald McDonnell (Durham, USA): Estrogen receptor pharmacology
Gregory Mundy (San Antonio, USA): Pharmacological approaches to interfering with tumour cell interactions in bone
Ed Nemeth (Toronto, Canada): The calcium sensing receptor as a drug target
Jack Martin (Melbourne, Australia): Cellular coupling revisited. Communication between osteoblasts and osteoclasts
Jude Onyia (Indianapolis, USA): Molecular mechanisms of PTH action
Larry Raisz (Farmington, USA): Prostaglandins and bone in 2005
René Rizzoli (Geneva, Switzerland): Entering the era of the dual action bone agent
Michael Rogers (Aberdeen, UK): Molecular insights into bisphosphonate actions
Tim Spector (London, UK): Update on osteoarthritis: pathogenesis and treatment |