Organizers:
Thomas Kean, PhD
ORS Ambassador – West South Central/Texas
Baylor College of Medicine
Podium presentations will take place in Kleberg Auditorium in the Michael E. DeBakey Center
Poster presentations will take place in Razyor Lounge in the Cullen Building
Symposium Highlights
Over 100 people attended the event with people coming from Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Galveston and as far away as Socorro, New Mexico. Over 40 posters were presented covering a wide range of musculoskeletal topics. Awards were presented for poster and podium presentations, wherein the graduate and post-doctoral presentations were of such high quality it was difficult for the judges to pick winners. Dr. Johnny Huard gave an outstanding keynote touching on the challenges faced in aging and stem cell directed repair.
Response to the meeting was very positive. For example, one (anonymous) attendee stated, “I really appreciated having a forum of peers to share information with before a larger arena such as the ORS Annual Meeting. Especially for beginning-career-scientists/physicians, events like this help us have a better understanding of the interactions we might expect at national/international meetings.
Symposium Podium Talk and Poster Award Winners
Congrats to the follow symposium podium talk and poster award winners:
Post-Doc/Resident Podium Talk
Chieh Tseng, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Superior Regenerative Capacity of Skeletal Muscle in MRL/MpJ Mice correlate with a reduced Inflammatory Responses and increased potency of muscle progenitor cells
Graduate/Medical Student Podium Talk
Diarra Williams, MS
Texas A&M University
Genetic engineering to produce a sheep model of Hypophosphatasia
Post-Doc/Resident Poster
Behnam Sharareh, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Masquelet Reconstruction for Post-Traumatic Segmental Bone Defects in the Forearm
Yannis Hara, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Mx1-labeled tendon stem/progenitor cells in paratenon contribute to tendon regeneration and repair in vivo
Graduate/Medical Student Poster
Andrea Fa
UT Southwestern Medical School
Molecular and structural changes in Intervertebral Discs following Severe Burn in Rat
Haizi Cheng
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
The expression level of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitors differs between young and old muscle-derived stem cells: Implications for Cell Cycle Regulation during aging
Best Poster
Chieh Tseng, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
The role of PDGFRβ expressing cells in skeletal muscle during aging
Andrea Fa: Molecular and structural changes in Intervertebral Discs following Severe Burn in Rat
Best poster supported by QuantaBio
Names in bold denote an ORS member.
Contact
Thomas Kean, PhD, ORS Ambassador – West South Central
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Thomas.Kean@bcm.edu
Bailey McMurray, Orthopaedic Research Society
Phone: (847) 823-5770
Email: mcmurray@ors.org
Learn more about ORS membership by visiting www.ors.org
Follow Dr. Kean on Twitter.
Thank you to the following symposium supporters:
