Center for Bone Biology

Welcome to the new and revised Bone Center website.  The website has been redesigned to fit the format being used in general at Vanderbilt.  We have also attempted to update it to make it more user friendly and provide more useful information for students who are checking out our website.  The Bone Center continues its active programs which are, fortunately, still well-funded in spite of the current economic troubles which have taken their toll because of the pressures they have put on the NIH budget.  We have several new grants which have been funded in the last month or so including a VA Merit Review grant for Dr. Mundy, a VA Career Development Award for Jeff Nyman and a DOD Concept Award for Florent Elefteriou.  Like others, of course, we continue with a flurry of grant applications to ensure a steady stream of funding.

We have also published a number of publications over the past year in a variety of Journals including Blood, Developmental Cell, Molecular Cell Biology and JBMR. In addition, Dr. Claire Edwards has recently had a manuscript accepted in the Am J Haem and Dr. Jeffry Nyman recently published in the Journal of Biomechanics. 

Several of our group are attending the International Bone and Mineral Society Meeting in Sydney, including Drs. Mundy, Gloria Gutierrez and Swati Biswas.  Drs. Biswas has an oral presentations at that meeting and Dr. Mundy will receive the Gaillard Award from the IBMS.  Bone Center investigators have also been invited to present research from our groups at several international meetings, including:

•     The Advances in Mineral Metabolism-John Haddad Young Investigators' Meeting, Snowmass, USA, April 4-8, 2009 (Dr. J. Edwards)
•     The 11th European Congress of Endocrinology, Istanbul, Turkey, April 25–29, 2009 (Dr. F. Elefteriou)
•     The 2009 NF Conference, Portland, USA, June 13-16, 2009 (Dr. F. Elefteriou)
•     The European Calcified Tissue Society PHD training, Oxford, UK, July 2-5, 2009 (Dr. F. Elefteriou)
•     The 4th International Workshop on Advances in the Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Bone Disease, Oxford, UK, July 6-8 2009 (Dr. J. Edwards)
•     The ASBMR 31st Annual Meeting, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, USA, September 11-15, 2009 (Dr. J. Edwards)
•     The IX International Meeting on Cancer Induced Bone Disease, October 28 - October 31, 2009 (Dr. C. Edwards)

We also have a number of new offspring for the Center with recent arrivals for Drs. Yun, Sterling and the Elefterious.  We have a dynamic and friendly Seminar and Journal Club series, along with informal interactive weekly lab meetings, which are open to all who may be interested in beginning, continuing or developing their research into any aspect of bone biology.