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Tuesday 2 February 2016

SCS Bone and Muscle Research has global reach - Department of Medicine researchers receive grant to attend WCO-IOF-ESCEO conference

Dr David Scott
Congratulations senior post-doctoral researcher Dr David Scott and PhD student Alexander Rodriguez who have been awarded competitive grants to attend the world's largest conference on osteoporosis and musculoskeletal disease.


The ESCEO-AgNovos Healthcare Young Investigator Awards, each valued at €2500, will enable the Bone and Muscle Health group researchers to attend the the 2016 World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteopenia and Musculoskeletal Research (WCO-IOF-ESCEO) in Malaga, Spain in April.
Alexander Rodriguez

Dr Scott is investigating associations of sarcopenic-obesity with bone mineral density and incident falls and fractures among older men while Alexander is undertaking a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of vitamin D on measures of arterial stiffness.  

Head of the Bone and Muscle Research Group Professor Peter Ebeling will deliver a plenary lecture on vitamin D, the immune response and infection at the conference.

The conference represents a combined meeting between The International Osteoporosis Federation and The European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis making this conference the largest osteoporosis meeting in the world.


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