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ECTS Announcements and Events
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ECTS 2020:
pre-congress and congress early registration deadline 23 March 2020 - Register here.
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ECTS 2020: New Data Abstract submission -
21 February - 6 March 2020 - SUBMIT NOW
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ECTS Webinar: Biomaterials, tissue engineering & 3D printing, 19 March 2020 4pm CET by Maria-Pau Ginebra and jointly organised with TERMIS
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Register here
- ECTS PhD Training Course, jointly organized with GEMSTONE COST-Action, 23-26 June 2020, Edinburgh, UK -Programme & Registrations
- ECTS-TERMIS-EU Workshop on Bone Tissue Engineering - Fundamental Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities, 15 May 2020, Marseille, France - More information
- ECTS-ICCBH Workshop on Rare Bone Diseases - Genetic defects in mineral and matrix homeostasis from infancy to adulthood, 15 May 2020, Marseille, France -More information -Followed by a Rare Bone Diseases Working Group and ERN-BOND Workshop.
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ECTS - ERA EDTA CKD-MBD WG Workshop on Chronic Kidney Disease - Mineral and Bone Disorder
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Marseille, France - More information
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ECTS - Mellanby Training on Bone Turnover Markers, 15 May 2020, Marseille, France - More information
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ECTS-Lilly France Scholarship Programme for young rheumatologists to attend ECTS 2020 in Marseille - Apply
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ECTS 2020 Abstracts to be published as a supplement of Bone Reports and will be available before the congress
Other Announcements and Events
- Inaugural International Sarcopenia Translational Research Conference (ISTRC), Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 11-12 June 2020 - More information
- ICCBH Bone School: Educational Course on Paediatric Bone Disorders and Rare Bone Diseases 29 June - 1 July 2020 - More information
- 14th International Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI2020) - abstract submission and registration now open, Sheffield, UK, 5-8 September 2020 - More information
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ECTS 2020: Pre-Congress Day -
By
Yasmine Alanay
The ECTS congress expands and provides the ECTS committed members with an exciting
pre-congress day on Friday 15 May 2020. This day is dedicated to a number of activities that will delight the delegates in a lively and friendly atmosphere where they can attend many events and learn the most recent discoveries in the calcified tissue field. The first session will be organised as a
National Day with collaboration with The French Society of Biology of Bone and Mineralized Tissues (SFBTM).
The programme will then move through with three parallel sessions. The Joint Meeting between
ECTS & ERA-EDTA CKD-MBD Working Group Chronic Kidney Disease - Mineral and Bone Disorder with emphasis on biomarkers of bone fragility for bone and kidney, the
ECTS/ICCBH workshop on Rare Bone Diseases, which will aim to provide the knowledge to facilitate our understanding on mineral and matrix homeostasis from infancy to adulthood, and the
Bone Tissue Engineering workshop that will be focused on fundamental concepts, challenges and opportunities in this field.
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ECTS Academy events at the ECTS Annual meeting, Marseille 15-19 May 2020 -
by Natalie Butterfield.
The ECTS Academy has been working hard on an exciting program to support and showcase great science, particularly from New Investigators (https://www.ects2020.org/programme/). These sessions are open to everyone (but some pre-registration is required, so get in early!).
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Belgium Bone Club - by Jean-Jacques Body
The Belgium Bone Club (BBC, http://www.bbcbonehealth.org/) was founded in 1985 by Prof. Jean-Yves Reginster, Prof. Michel Fuss, Prof. Piet Geusens and Prof. Jean-Pierre Devogelaer The BBC is a nonprofit scientific organization devoted to promoting understanding of osteoporosis and bone diseases.
The BBC Board consists of the President, Past President, Treasurer and Secretary. Currently these posts are held by Evelien Gielen (KU Leuven, Leuven), Jean-Jacques Body (ULB, Brussels), Etienne Cavalier (ULiège, Liège) and Olivier Bruyère (ULiège, Liège), respectively. The other five Board members are Pierre Bergmann (ULB), Stefan Goemaere (UGent, Ghent), Bruno Lapauw (UGent, Ghent), Michael Laurent (Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden) and Serge Rozenberg (ULB-VUB, Brussels). Members of the BBC Board are elected for a period of four years and the Board is renewed by half every two years. In its composition, the BBC Board aims to represent the Universities of Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels, as well as different medical specialities that have interest in bone.
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Crowdfunding science.
Intro by Antonio Maurizi
In recent years, being funded for your research is becoming increasingly difficult. Whenever we think to get funding, we refer to the traditional funding scheme in which you rely on a remote panel that evaluate your idea and propose the funding agency to support your research. In this editorial, recently published in Genome Biology Mellissa A. Wilson talks about Crowdfunding in science, telling us her experience. She moved to crowdfunding after failing several times to secure traditional funding for her research. She described the difference between the traditional funding and the crowdfunding highlighting that they are not competing each other but they are complementary. Indeed, most crowdfundings in science are quite small (average for one platform 3500$) and they could be useful to development only a small part of a project. For this reason, larger grants (obtained by regular funding) are needed to fund many areas of research, especially if you need to support personnel.
For crowdfunding there are many platforms in which your idea can be shared, and you can raise money. Choose the right platform is crucial to ensure the maximum visibility of your idea. Here an example of crowdfunding platform (https://experiment.com/). An interesting point touched by the article is represent by the fact that crowdfunding allows to build new collaborations and develop an increasing network of connections. The editorial will give us a kind of roadmap that can be followed to access and get crowdfunding. Key points in the crowdfunding process such as the identification of the pitch, how to generate media content and build a network, costs and benefits are described by the author. As mentioned by Mellissa A. Wilson "
Crowdfunding forces us to step back from the lab and place our research in a broader context, in a very concrete way".
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ECTS Announcements and Events
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- ECTS 2020: pre-congress and congress early registration deadline 23 March 2020- Register here.
- ECTS 2020: New Data Abstract submission - 21 February - 6 March 2020 - SUBMIT NOW.
- Become an active ECTS member, part of a dynamic community - Join or renew your membership now
- ECTS Webinar: Biomaterials, tissue engineering & 3D printing, 19 March 2020 4pm CET by Maria-Pau Ginebra and jointly organised with TERMIS - Register here
- ECTS PhD Training Course, jointly organized with GEMSTONE COST-Action, 23-26 June 2020, Edinburgh, UK -Programme & Registrations
- ECTS-TERMIS-EU Workshop on Bone Tissue Engineering - Fundamental Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities, 15 May 2020, Marseille, France - More information
- ECTS-ICCBH Workshop on Rare Bone Diseases - Genetic defects in mineral and matrix homeostasis from infancy to adulthood, 15 May 2020, Marseille, France -More information -Followed by a Rare Bone Diseases Working Group and ERN-BOND Workshop.
- ECTS - ERA EDTA CKD-MBD WG Workshop on Chronic Kidney Disease - Mineral and Bone Disorder, 15 May 2020, Marseille, France - More information
- ECTS - Mellanby Training on Bone Turnover Markers, 15 May 2020, Marseille, France - More information
- ECTS-Lilly France Scholarship Programme for young rheumatologists to attend ECTS 2020 in Marseille - Apply
- ECTS Webinars : 2020 calendar now available - Check it out
ECTS 2020 Abstracts to be published as a supplement of Bone Reports and will be available before the congress
Other Announcements and Events
- Inaugural International Sarcopenia Translational Research Conference (ISTRC), Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 11-12 June 2020 - More information
- ICCBH Bone School: Educational Course on Paediatric Bone Disorders and Rare Bone Diseases 29 June - 1 July 2020 - More information
- 14th International Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI2020) - abstract submission and registration now open, Sheffield, UK, 5-8 September 2020 - 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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