10th Annual Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium - Virtual Event
Symposium Mission
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium continues to seek and expand the knowledge base within the field, and to foster creativity, collaboration and networking between researchers throughout the region. This year’s meeting will emphasize recent advances in translational research in four areas:
- Tendon Remodeling and Repair
- Musculoskeletal Regeneration and Repair
- Bone Adaptation: From Cells to Tissue
- Osteosarcoma and Degenerative Musculoskeletal diseases
Goals and Features
This program attempts to address current issues in musculoskeletal repair and regeneration, and disease treatment. The presentations and discussions will focus on up-to-date scientific discoveries and the potential impact of these findings on patient treatment and management in the future. This meeting features:
- 8 outstanding speakers from the United States and Europe
- Lightening e-poster session and Young Investigator Award session
Registration
REGISTRATION
Registration is closed
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR POSTER SESSION AND YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AND CLINICAL YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS
We invite investigators to submit abstracts for the virtual lightening e-poster session, which is an important component of this conference.
Abstracts from graduate and medical students, residents and postdoctoral fellows will be considered for Young Investigator Awards and Clinical Young Investigator Award. Four winners,
three from Young Investigator category and one from Clinical Young Investigator category will be announced and each will be presented with a prize and a plaque. To qualify, you must register and
submit an abstract to Dr. Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, the chair of the Poster Session and Young Investigator Award committee, by September 24, 2021 via email to:sereffer@montefiore.org
- The abstract is limited to 1 page. Include in your abstract the study's objective, a brief statement of methods, a summary of the results obtained, conclusions, and significance. Please follow the abstract template.
- As the Symposium aims to promote communication within our region, we encourage you to submit your recent work (within 2021) to this Symposium, including work that may have been submitted to other meetings.
Please note: Two PowerPoint slides with 2 minutes audio must be submitted for all accepted posters by October 15, 2021.
Important Deadlines:
Abstract Submission : September 24, 2021
Poster Submission : October 15, 2021
Agenda
| 8:00 – 8:10 am | Introduction and acknowledgements |
| Mia M. Thi, PhD | |
| Opening remarks | |
| Neil J. Cobelli, MD | |
| Session 1 – Tendon Remodeling and Repair | Steering Chair: Dirk Hubmacher, PhD |
| 8:10 – 8:15 am | Introduction |
| Dirk Hubmacher, PhD | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | |
| 8:15 – 8:35 am | Tenomodulin signature in tendon repair process |
| Denitsa Docheva, PhD | |
| University of Wuerzburg, Germany | |
| 8:35 – 8:55 am | Small molecules regulating interplay between tendon stem/progenitor cells and macrophages |
| Chang Hun Lee, PhD | |
| Columbia University Irving Medical Center | |
| 8:55 - 9:05 am | Discussion / Conclusions |
| 9:05 – 9:15 am | BREAK |
| Session 2 – Musculoskeletal Regeneration and Repair | Steering Chair: Nadeen Chahine, PhD |
| 9:15 - 9:20 am | Introduction |
| Nadeen Chahine, PhD | |
| Columbia University | |
| 9:20 - 9:40 am | Decoding synovial joint regeneration in zebrafish |
| Joanna Smeeton, PhD | |
| Columbia University Irving Medical Center | |
| 9:40 - 10:00 am | Novel therapeutic strategies for degenerative disc disease and osteoarthritis |
| Fackson Mwale, PhD | |
| McGill University | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 am | Discussion / Conclusions |
| 10:10 – 10:20 am | BREAK |
| Session 3 – Skeletal Adaptation: From Cells to Tissue | Steering chair: Alessandra Carriero, PhD |
| 10:20 - 10:25 am | Introduction |
| Alessandra Carriero, PhD | |
| City College of New York | |
| 10:25 - 10:45 am | Effects of mechanics on bone growth |
| Sandra Shefelbine, PhD | |
| Northeastern University | |
| 10:45 - 11:05 am | Osteocytes in Skeletal Aging and Joint Disease |
| Tamara Alliston, PhD | |
| University of California San Francisco | |
| 11:05 - 11:15 am | Discussion / Conclusions |
| 11:15 – 11:25 am | BREAK |
| 11:25 am : 12:45 pm | e-Poster Session |
| Concurrent Lightning e-Poster Sessions | |
| 12:45 – 12:55 pm | BREAK |
| Session 4 – Osteosarcoma and Degenerative Musculoskeletal Diseases | Steering chairs: Peter Torzilli, PhD and Martin Levy, MD |
| 12:55 - 1:00 pm | Introduction |
| Peter Torzilli, PhD | |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College | |
| Martin Levy, MD | |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center | |
| 1:00 -1:20 pm | Modulating Wnt Signaling to Prevent Osteosarcoma Metastasis |
| David M. Loeb, MD, PhD | |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center | |
| 1:20 - 1:40 pm | Quantitative Imaging For Osteoarthritis |
| Matthew Koff, PhD | |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery | |
| 1:40 - 1:50 pm | Discussion / Conclusions |
| 1:50 – 2:00 pm | BREAK |
| Young Investigator Awards | Chair: Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, PhD |
| 2:00 – 2:10 pm | Young Investigator Awards |
| Hosted by: Young Investigator Award Committee | |
| 2:10 pm | Closing remarks |
| Neil J. Cobelli, MD |
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Mia M. Thi, PhD
STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Alessandra Carriero, PhD
Nadeen Chahine, PhD
Dirk Hubmacher, PhD
Martin Levy, MD
Peter Torzilli, PhD
PROGRAM OVERSEERS
Michael Detamore, PhD
Susannah Fritton, PhD
Mary Goldring, PhD
Steven Goldring, MD
Ed Guo, PhD
John Hardin, MD
David Hirsh, MD
James Iatridis, PhD
Lionel Ivashkiv, MD
Thorsten Kirsch, PhD
Catherine Kuo, PhD
Chuanju Liu, PhD
Helen Lu, PhD
Jeremy Mao, DDS, PhD
Steven Nicoll, PhD
Maurizio Pacifici, PhD
Nicola Patridge, PhD
Clinton Rubin, PhD
Yi-Xian Qin, PhD
Mitchell Schaffler, PhD
David Spray, PhD
Stavros Thomopoulos, PhD
POSTER SESSION AND YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD COMMITTE
Chair: Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, PhD
Co-chairs :
Leila Alvandi, PhD
Ugur Ayturk, PhD
David Corr, PhD
X. Edward Guo, PhD
David Hirsh, MD
Bang Hoang, PhD
Robert Majeska, PhD
Yi-Xian Qin, PhD
Sylvia Suadicani, PhD
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mia M. Thi, PhD
Program Director
Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, PhD
Chair, Poster Session and Young Investigator Award Committee