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9th Annual Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium - Virtual Event

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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:

• New insights in bone

• Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

• Tendon and ligament regenerative healing

• Advances in 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

CONFERENCE DATE

October 8, 2020

PROGRAM

8:00 – 8:10 am

Introduction and acknowledgements

Mia M. Thi, PhD

Opening remarks

Neil J. Cobelli, MD

Session 1 – New insights in bone

Steering chair: Alesha Castillo, PhD

8:10 – 8:15 am

Introduction

Alesha Castillo, PhD

New York University

8:15 – 8:35 am

Skeletal Stem and Progenitor Cells (SSPCs) in Bone Growth, Homeostasis and Repair

Christa Maes, PhD

KU Leuven, Belgium

8:35 – 8:55 am

Bone Mechanotransduction - Checks and Balances

Karl Lewis, PhD

Cornell University

8:55 – 9:05 am

Discussion / Conclusions

9:05 – 9:15 am BREAK

Session 2 – Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Steering chair: James Iatridis, PhD, co-chair: Woojin Han, PhD

9:15 – 9:20 am

Introduction

James Iatridis, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

9:20 – 9:40 am

Spatially functionalized biomaterials to direct osteochondral tissue regeneration

Lesley W. Chow, PhD

Lehigh University

9:40 – 10:00 am

Synthetic designer matrices for skeletal muscle stem cell transplantation

Woojin Han, PhD

Georgia Institute of Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

10:00 – 10:10 am

Discussion / Conclusions

10:10 – 10:20 am BREAK
Session 3 – Tendon and ligament regenerative healing Steering chair: David Corr, PhD
10:20 – 10:25 pm	Introduction David Corr, PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
10:25 – 10:45 pm	Immune modulation of tendon and ligament healing Connie Chamberlain, PhD UW-Madison
10:45 – 11:05 am	Fiber-based Models of Soft Tissue Healing Helen Lu, PhD Columbia University
11:05 – 11:15 am	Discussion / Conclusions
11:15 – 11:25 am BREAK
11:25 – 12:45 pm	Concurrent lightening poster sessions
12:45 – 12:55 pm BREAK
Session 4 – Advances in musculoskeletal diseases Steering chair: Lionel Ivashkiv, MD; co-chair: Bang Hoang, MD
12:55 – 1:00 pm	Introduction Lionel Ivashkiv, MD The Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
1:00 – 1:20 pm	Epigenomic Changes Accompanying the Progression of Surgically Induced Osteoarthritis Miguel Otero, PhD The Hospital for Special Surgery
1:20 – 1:40 pm	Protecting patients from Infection: Optimizing patients, implants, and our environment. Nicholas M. Bernthal, MD David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
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
Closing Remarks
2:10 pm	Closing remarks Neil J. Cobelli, MD

REGISTRATION

Registration is closed.

An email with the information to virtually join the meeting will be sent to the registrants’ email prior to meeting. Please note that only those who registered will be granted access.

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 11, 2020 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 template here. As the Symposium aims to promote communication within our region, we encourage you to submit your recent work (within 2020) 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 2, 2020.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mia M. Thi, PhD – Program Director

Neil J. Cobelli - University Chairman

Steering Committee Chairs