Congratulations to the Sun Valley Award and Travel Grant Recipients
Under-Represented Minority Travel Grant
- Iris Boraschi, McGill University; Interactions between osteoclast and full length collagen type I and its degradation products
- Tiffiny Butler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Increased marrow adipose tissue following Spinal Cord Injury
- Jean de la Croix Ndong, Vanderbilt University; Controlled local delivery of Trametinib combined to rBMP2 promotes osteoblast differentiation and bone healing in Nf1Osx-/- mice.
Alice L. Jee Young Investigator Award
- Rakesh Bijarnia, University of Bern; Amelioration of vascular calcification by sodium thiosulfate: role of matrix vesicles
- M. Ete Chan, Stony Brook University; Mechanical Signals May Improve Bone Quality in T2D via Enhancing Mesenchymal Stem Cell and its Paracrine Regulation of Osteoblasts
- Blaine Christiansen, University of California-Davis Medical Center; Diminished bone adaptation to mechanical loading in mice with reduced sensory nerve function
- Erica Clickenbeard, Indiana University School of Medicine; Evidence for HIF1-independent FGF23 control during iron deficiency anemia
- Neha Dole, Univeristy of Connecticut Health Center; A single nucleotide polymorphism in osteonectin 3’ untranslated region regulates bone volume and is targeted by miR-433
- Yi Fan, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Deletion of PTH1R expression from limb mesenchyme affects systemic mineral ion homeostasis
- Jennifer Krauss, Washington University School of Medicine; NLRP12 is a Critical Negative Regulator of Alternative NF-кB Signaling in Bone
- Brya Matthews, University of Connecticut Health Center; Characterization of Cells that Contribute to Heterotopic Ossification in Muscle
- Stephen Schlecht, University of Michigan; Do African-Americans and Caucasians build long bones in fundamentally different ways?
- Hua Shen, Washington University in St. Louis; Deletion of Connexin43 in osteoblasts/osteocytes leads to impaired muscle formation and performance
- Hus-Wen Tseng, University of Queensland Diamantina Institute; Endochondral bone formation and advanced enthesitis are key features of PGISP mouse model of Ankylosing Spondylitis
Osteoarthritis Award
- Yan Jing, Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry; Defective Chondrocytes are Directly Transformed to Bone and Vessel Cells in Osteoarthritis Patients
ASBMR/Harold M. Frost Young Investigator Award
- Andrea Alford, University of Michigan; Thrombospondin-2 contributes to whole bone mechanical properties by modulating collagenfibrillogenesis
- Abhishek Chandra, University of Pennsylvania; PTH alleviates radiation-induced osteoporosis by improving DNA repair through canonical Wnt pathway
- Brent Edwards, University of Calgary; Reduction in Proximal Tibia Compartmental Bone Mineral as a Function of Time since Spinal Cord Injury
- Kyu-Sang Joeng, Baylor College of Medicine; WNT1 is one of the major WNT ligands regulating bone homeostasis
- Natalie Kelly, Cornell University; RNA Seq-based Gene Expression in Mechanically Loaded Mouse Cortical and Cancellous Bone
- Oran Kennedy, New York University School of Medicine; Acute Knee Injury Causes Microdamage in Subchondral Bone: A Potential Role in PTOA?
- Anthony Lau, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Comparing Effects of Spaceflight and Hind Limb Unloading with a Sclerostin Antibody Countermeasure on Bone Strength Using Finite Element Analysis
- Nicola Napoli, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma; Bone, myokines and lifestyle intervention in elderly obese
- Zhendong Zhong, University of California, Davis; Progesterone Receptor in Bone Cells Regulates Bone Mass Accrual
Charles H. Turner Award
- Perla Reyes-Fernandez, Purdue University