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for Thursday, July 24, 2008


2009 Call for Nominations ORS members can now submit a nomination for officers and committee members. The deadline is July 25, 2008. Click here to submit a nominee.

ORS members, please update your member profile today It is very important for the ORS to have your current information on your interests. Do not delay: update your profile now by clicking here.

54th Annual Meeting Lectures "Wear Resistant Polyethylene for Joint Replacement: Current Status and Future Directions" Lecture is now available in audio. Click here to listen


Educational Meetings and Symposia

i-FAB Conference
The first i-FAC Conference is planned for September 4-6, 2008, at Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy. For more information visit www.i-fab.org/ifabconference.htm. Online submission of abstracts will be open January 10-February 28, 2008.

Young Investigators Initiative
Young Clinical Investigators Grant Skill-Writing and Mentoring Program will be held Oct 31-Nov 2, 2008, Toronto, Ontario. For more information visit www.usbjd.org/research/research_op.cfm?dirID=197. Application deadline is July 15, 2008.

International Bone-Tissue-Engineering Congress
The International Bone-Tissue-Engineering Congress will be held November 7-9, 2008 in Hanover, Germany. Bone-tec 2008 will bring together all research disciplines from lab to clinical application in humans. An interdisciplinary interchange of ideas, under integration of industry, provides the opportunity of advancing bone regeneration in vivo including cartilage, tendons and ligaments as therapy in humans. For more information, please visit our website at: www.bone-tec.com.

American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB) Annual Meeting
The American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB) Annual Meeting will be held December 7-10, 2008 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. Detail information on registration and call for abstracts will be announced in our next newsletter and on the ASMB website at www.asmb.net.

2nd Joint Meeting of the International Bone & Mineral Society and the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society
The next Scientific Meeting of the International Bone & Mineral Society will be held March 21-25, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. For registration and abstract submission information please see www.ibms2009.com.

7th Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Societies
The 7th Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Societies will be held October 16-20, 2010 in Kyoto, Japan. For information, e-mail cors2010@cs-oto.com.

If you would like to include your meeting on this page, please contact the ORS at ors@ors.org and include the name, date, and location of the meeting, as well as a link to your meeting website.