Programme
The ECTS 2021 Programme will be rich, with plenary sessions, debates, educational symposia, industry symposia, clinical/basic science concurrent sessions, workshops, training courses, working groups and more. The congress will have 3-days Live Prime Time on 6-8 May 2021, followed by 5-days of interactive ECTS@Home on 19-20 May, 10-11 and 18 June 2021. The ECTS 2021 programme will bring you:
- Latest Science: basic science and clinical research and implications for practice
- Essential updates in the musculoskeletal field
- What is new, the year in review
- Latest technological updates and applications
- Clinically relevant information and advice
- Interaction with international renowned experts and leaders in the field
- New Investigator programme developed by ECTS Academy
Programme Highlights
Basic Science
Myeloma bone disease (Joint ECTS-CABS Session) :
- MGUS, myeloma and bone
- Interplay of myeloma and bone marrow cells in 2D and 3D models
Hypoxia signalling in skeletal tissues
- Hypoxia and bone development
- Hypoxia signalling and metabolism in cartilage
Clinical Research and Practice
Osteoporosis in CKD
- Currently available diagnostic tools in CKD
- Treatment options for bone in patients with CKD
Obesity, bariatric surgery and fractures
- Obesity and fractures
- Effects of bariatric surgery of bone
Basic and Clinical
What is New: New basic science technologies and therapeutic strategies
Insights from outside: Senescence
Osteoimmunology: focus on arthritis
- Novel arthritis-associated osteoclast precursor macrophages
- Local and generalized bone loss in rheumatic diseases
Sex hormones and bone :
- Sex hormones in the nervous system affect bone mass
- Sex hormones and bone : Effects of transgender treatment on bone
Most popular sessions
- ECTS-ASBMR Clinical Debate: This house believes that personalised medicine for osteoporosis will give a better outcome than the current standard of care
- Big Clinical Session: Osteoporosis in next decade