The 2016 annual ICMRS-ORS Membership Meeting was held at Orlando on March 5^th, 2016. More than 120 ICMRS members and invited guests attended the meeting. After a special dinner and socializing event, the meeting was kick started with welcome remarks by Dr. Tingting Tang, Chair of Program Committee and President-Elect. This was followed by a speech from the President, Dr. James Wang. He detailed the latest developments in ICMRS, especially the transformation of ICMRS to a paid-membership society. Dr. Linda J. Sandell, from the Washington University in St. Louis, and the current Editor in Chief of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, then delivered the keynote address entitled “Genetics of Cartilage Repair and Osteoarthritis”.

A major event in the meeting was the announcement of three winners of the Webster Jee Young Investigator Awards. Shao-wei Wang from the Medical School of Brown University, Huan-xiong Chen from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Wei Tong from University of Pennsylvania each received an award plaque and a $300 check. The award ceremony was followed by an introduction to ICOBR, 2016 by Dr. Yi-xian Qin, an ICMRS Board of Director, and an introduction to the Journal of Orthopaedic Translation by Dr. Lin Qin, the Chief Editor of this journal. The President of CORS, Dr. Zhuo-jing Luo, an invited attendee of this meeting introduced the 2016 ICORS meeting in Xian.

For more information about the conference, please visit the ICMRS website. Please see the photo gallery from the meeting.

 

 

The 2016 ICORS meeting, organized by the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies, will take place at Xi'an, China on September 21-25.

Meeting website:  http://www.2016icors.org/

Abstract submission deadline: March 31, 2016

Deadline of early birds for registration: July 31, 2016

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Please click the picture below to watch the welcome video.

Dr. Fei Wang has presented some funding opportunities from NIAMS/NIH at the ICMRS-ORS Membership Meeting in Orlando, FL on March 5, 2016.

NIAMS PAs on Accelerating Research on Intervertebral Disc, R01 (PA-16-097) and R21 (PA-16-096)

NIAMS RFAs on Mechanistic Ancillary Studies to Ongoing Interventional Clinical Trials, R01 (RFA-AR-17-003) and R21 (RFA-AR-17-004)

NIAMS SBIR RFA Building Complex 3-Dimensional in Vitro Human Musculoskeletal and Skin Tissue Models, R43 (RFA-AR-17-005)

NCATS Chip 2.0 – Disease Modeling Program in FY 2017 (Check out http://www.ncats.nih.gov/tissuechip for details and future RFAs)

Please click here for her presentation.

  

Dr. Linda Sandell is the keynote speaker of 2016 ICMRS-ORS membership meeting at Orlando, Florida

Genetics of Cartilage Repair and Osteoarthritis

Dr. Linda Sandell,  Washington University 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 5, 2016 Durango 1-2, Disney’s Coronado Springs Convention Center JOIN US TODAY!

Dr. Linda Sandell is the Mildred B. Simon Professor and Co-Director to the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at Washington University in St. Louis.  She has been a leader in the field of orthopaedic research, pioneering the use of molecular biologic techniques, protein biochemistry, large screening technologies, microscopy and computational biology to study cell responses to cartilage cell injury and the regulation of gene expression in connective tissues. Dr. Sandell received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Denver University, her Ph.D. in biochemistry at Northwestern University, and postdoctoral work in molecular biology at the University of Chicago.  Dr. Sandell was a faculty member at Rush Medical College in Chicago from 1982 to 1987, and at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1987 to 1997 when she moved to Washington University.  Dr. Sandell has authored more than 200 publications, in addition to three books and seven patents. She has provided extensive leadership in the orthopaedic research field having chaired three Gordon Conferences and numerous other conferences including co-founding the Cartilage Gordon Conference. She has been President of the Orthopaedic Research Society (2000), the Histochemical Society (2005-2007) and the Society for Matrix Biology (2006-2008).  In 2010, she received the Women’s Leadership Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society and, in 2015,the Alfred E. Shands, MD. Award from the ORS. She is Past President of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (2010- 2013).

How can you get there? Meeting Address: Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort 1000 West Buena Vista Drive Lake Buena Vista, FL2830-8403

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

WEBSTER JEE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

2016 ICMRS-ORS MEMBERSHIP MEETING

March 5^th, 2016, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando

Description

The International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS) will hold its 2016 ICMRS-ORS Membership Meeting on Saturday, March 5^th, 2016at Orlando. The meeting is organized to provide a forum for ICMRS members to exchange the information in frontiers of all musculoskeletal research, to bridge the knowledge gap between the scholars from different research fields, to promote young investigators in the field for successful career developments, and to share the successful experience in career development by senior researchers. To recognize the achievement of young ICMRS members, three Webster Jee Young Investigator Awards will be given at the meeting. The winners will be announced during the membership meeting and each awardee will receive an award certificate/plaque and a $300 check. All applicants are asked to attend the meeting because the award will only be given to the recipients who attend. Applicants may find details about ICMRS at http://www.icmrs.net. The program of 2016 ICMRS-ASBMR Membership Meeting will be announced soon.

Eligibility

1)    Current ICMRS member (for registration: http://www.icmrs.net/user/register)

2)    First author of accepted ORS abstract for 2016 annual meeting

3)    Current graduate and/or medical student; Post-doc or equivalent; Junior faculty and professionals who received PhD or MD in less than 5 years

4)    Has not received the award previously

5)    Applicants are not required to be Chinese heritage

Selection

The accepted ICMRS abstract in both blind and un-blind formats should be submitted to the following e-mail address: icmrs.net@gmail.com no later than January 25 (Monday), 2016. The attached documents should be smaller than 10 MB. All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed in blind by a review panel appointed by the ICMRS Program Committee. The top scored abstracts will be selected as the winners. As a general rule, no more than one award will be given to the applicants from the same research laboratory/group.

Meeting Information

Time: Saturday, March 5^th, 2016, 7:00 - 10:00 pm

Location: Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando

Registration: Free