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ECTS Announcements and Events
ECTS 2020 goes virtual
Enjoy 3-days of cutting-edge and lively exchanges at the
Digital ECTS 2020 from 22-24 October 2020, and immerse yourself in additional educational content delivered directly to you during ECTS@Home weekly classes, starting in September.
All at your fingertips and this year at a very special registration rate, so as we transition #ECTS2020 into a digital experience, make sure the dates are saved in your calendar. More info to be provided soon.
- ECTS Webinar: Genetics of Rare Bone Diseases, 17 September 2020 16:00 CET by Uwe Kornak - Register here
- Catch up with eLearning by attending our webinar recording
- ECTS Webinars : 2020 calendar now available - Check it out
- Awardees of the ECTS 2020 Basic and Clinical Fellowship, Antonio Maurizi and Andreas Fontalis - meet them here
- Congratulations to this year's ECTS Named Awards Winners:
- Prof Outi Mäkitie, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland recipient of the 2020 ECTS-Amgen Steven Boonen Award. More information
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Prof Rajesh V Thakker, University of Oxford, UK, recipient of the 2020 Philippe Bordier Award. More information -
Prof Jane Lian PhD, University of Vermont, USA recipient of the 2020 Mike Horton Award. More information -
Dr Andrea Palermo, MD, PhD, Campus Bio-Medico University Rome, Italy, recipient of the 2020 Iain T Boyle Award. More information
- Musculoskeletal Knowledge Portal, an open-access resource for omics results relevant to musculoskeletal traits and diseases. A collaborative initiative from the IFMRS and additional partners including ECTS - Access here
- Become an active ECTS member, part of a dynamic community - Join or renew your membership now
Other Announcements and Events
- ICCBH Bone School rescheduled. It will now be held in Dublin 30 June - 2 July 2021, prior the 10th International Conference on Children's Bone Health (ICCBH) 2021-More information
- 14th International Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI2020) postponed to 1-4 September 2021, Sheffield, UK - More information
- Abstract submission open for the 6th World congress TERMIS, 31st May-4th June 2021 in Maastricht, Netherlands. Abstract deadline 1st September. More infomation
- ASBMR 2020 annual meeting 11-15 September 2020 - Virtual Event. More information.
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STAY SAFE AND STRONG!!! - by Giulia Furesi
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ECTS 2020 goes digital - Lights, Camera, Action! - By Roberta Mugnai and Anna Teti.
ECTS 2020, the premier congress in Europe in the calcified tissues field, will go ahead on a total new digital format and is turning into the ECTS 2020 Digital Congress. Join us for this virtual event where we will celebrate science in an extensive and rich educational programme with:
- Live Prime Time: 3 full days of live virtual event from 22 24 October 2020.
- ECTS@Home: a series of educational sessions running every week from September to December 2020.
- ECTS 2020 On Demand: opportunity to watch sessions from the Live Prime Time and ECTS@Home on demand, after the live session is being held.
Accreditation will be seeking for the whole ECTS 2020 Digital Congress and it will be offered to ECTS members at a special registration rate. Registrations will open on 17 August and if you are not a member you can join us now! Furthermore, we will offer the ECTS 2020 registrants a special 50% discount for the 2021 membership fee.
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IFMRS news and initiatives - by Gudrun Stenbeck
IFMRS, the International Federation for Musculoskeletal Research Societies,
founded by ECTS and ASBMR, offers several exciting opportunities and tools for musculoskeletal researchers. ECTS members will be familiar with the IFMRS Big Data initiative from the ECTS meetings. This initiative has now led to an exciting new development for the research community, the Musculoskeletal Knowledge Portal (MSK-KP). MSK-KP, developed by the Broad Institute in collaboration with IFMRS, is an open-access genomic data mining platform for musculoskeletal traits and diseases. It is designed to comprehensively gather and curate "big data" to make them accessible to all researchers.
To find out more about this important new tool, visit the website and attend the IFMRS-ECTS joint session during the upcoming ECTS congress.
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Vitamin D and mortality - by Cristiana Cipriani
Summer is a good occasion for making a break, dedicating to our own interests outside the work, and, obviously, sunbathing. Hence, vitamin D production is usually increased during this season. It is therefore always very interesting to have new data on how vitamin D may impact our health. The topic is even of higher clinical relevance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Vitamin D status has been indeed variably associated with several skeletal and extra-skeletal disorders, whose prevalence is increased in the setting of hypovitaminosis D. Additionally, observational studies have reported inverse association between serum vitamin D levels and mortality. Associations have been described between prevalence, severity, and complications of the Covid-19, as well as Covid-19-related mortality, and poor vitamin D status.
The recent article by Fan and colleagues make an interesting contribution to the topic by assessing the association between vitamin D status and mortality in terms of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] thresholds to be pursued. The authors reported data from a prospective study performed in more than 360,000 subjects from the UK Biobank with a mean follow-up time of roughly 9 years. They observed that the inverse relationship between 25(OH)D levels and mortality is not linear. Patients whose serum 25(OH)D levels were above 60 nmol/L had 17-23% lower risk of all-cause mortality and mortality from cardiovascular disease; those with levels above 45 nmol/L had 11% lower risk for cancer-related death.
Although these data need validation by intervention studies, they provide an interesting view on one central aspect of the topic, namely the need of identifying optimal serum vitamin D level/s, eventually expressed in terms of range of serum vitamin D, that may significantly impact on mortality. Randomized trials assessing the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation on mortality from several causes and targeting specific serum 25(OH)D levels are needed to clarify how the hormone may actively contribute to the overall health.
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ECTS Announcements and Events
ECTS 2020 goes virtual
Enjoy 3-days of cutting-edge and lively exchanges at the
Digital ECTS 2020 from 22-24 October 2020, and immerse yourself in additional educational content delivered directly to you during ECTS@Home weekly classes, starting in September.
All at your fingertips and this year at a very special registration rate, so as we transition #ECTS2020 into a digital experience, make sure the dates are saved in your calendar. More info to be provided soon.
- ECTS Webinar: Genetics of Rare Bone Diseases, 17 September 2020 16:00 CET by Uwe Kornak - Register here
- Catch up with eLearning by attending our webinar recording
- ECTS Webinars : 2020 calendar now available - Check it out
- Awardees of the ECTS 2020 Basic and Clinical Fellowship, Antonio Maurizi and Andreas Fontalis - meet them here
- Congratulations to this year's ECTS Named Awards Winners:
- Prof Outi Mäkitie, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland recipient of the 2020 ECTS-Amgen Steven Boonen Award. More information
-
Prof Rajesh V Thakker, University of Oxford, UK, recipient of the 2020 Philippe Bordier Award. More information -
Prof Jane Lian PhD, University of Vermont, USA recipient of the 2020 Mike Horton Award. More information -
Dr Andrea Palermo, MD, PhD, Campus Bio-Medico University Rome, Italy, recipient of the 2020 Iain T Boyle Award. More information
- Musculoskeletal Knowledge Portal, an open-access resource for omics results relevant to musculoskeletal traits and diseases. A collaborative initiative from the IFMRS and additional partners including ECTS - Access here
- Become an active ECTS member, part of a dynamic community - Join or renew your membership now
Other Announcements and Events
- ICCBH Bone School rescheduled. It will now be held in Dublin 30 June - 2 July 2021, prior the 10th International Conference on Children's Bone Health (ICCBH) 2021-More information
- 14th International Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI2020) postponed to 1-4 September 2021, Sheffield, UK - More information
- Abstract submission open for the 6th World congress TERMIS, 31st May-4th June 2021 in Maastricht, Netherlands. Abstract deadline 1st September. More infomation
- ASBMR 2020 annual meeting 11-15 September 2020 - Virtual Event. More information.
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ECTS is thankful to its Corporate Members and other companies that have supported ECTS activities through unrestricted educational grants. These sponsors have in no way contributed to or influenced the content.
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Editor in chief: Teun De Vries (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Co-editors: Petar Milovanovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Cristiana Cipriani (Rome, Italy)
Antonio Maurizi (L'Aquila, Italy)
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