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Funding and Grant Opportunities:

ASBMR Bridge Grant Program:  The new American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Bridge Grant Program gives $50,000 to investigators who have had at least 5 years of funding in the past but who recently had an interruption in funding.  Visit http://www.asbmr.org/awards/index.cfm to learn more about this program and others available at ASBMR. 

Northwestern Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Grant: Read more here: http://www.cancer.northwestern.edu/Education/Travel_Grants.cfm

National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) supports investigators for up to $50,000 per year.  Read more here: http://www.nof.org/grants/index.htm

The Gideon & Sevgi Rodan IBMS Fellowship is given annually to support the salary of a deserving young investigator in the bone field. Support will be $40,000 for one year, not renewable, payable to the successful applicant's institution.  The research in bone biology or diseases of the bone may be: basic, translational, clinical, or outcomes-based.  The fellowship must be held in an academic institution--for example, a medical school, hospital, or research institute; Both Applicant and the Head of the recipient laboratory must be members of IBMS; Applicant must be a Fellow within three years of completing either a doctoral degree (M.D., Ph.D., D.D.S.) or must have carried out equivalent research in basic or clinical bone biology for up to six years since their first degree (M.B.B.S, B.D.Sc, B. Vet Sc etc); A high standard of research achievement for this career stage, with publications and presentations.The 2006 Fellowship will be presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the ASBMR in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, September, 2006.  Application deadline for the 2006 Fellowship is 10 July, 2006.

   

ASBMR abstracts by NUBOP members for 2006 annual meeting: 

Kim Dilley’s ASBMR abstract: “Osteoporosis in Leukemia and Stem Cell Transplant Survivors: Adequacy of Current Screening Practices”

Heather Price's ASBMR abstract: "Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 (FGF-23) in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease"

Dan Zhao’s ASBMR abstract: “Effects of Hindlimb Unloading and Bisphosphonates on the Serum Proteome in Rats”

   

Useful links:

National Institutes of Health Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases

National Osteoporosis Foundation

Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education

National Osteoporosis Society

Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation

Paget Foundation

Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery

Dept. of Medicine

Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology

Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry

Dept. of Pediatrics

Buelher Center on Aging

Center for Genetic Medicine

Children's Memorial Research Center

General Clinical Research Center

Northwestern Center for Clinical Research

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern

 

 

 

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