Symposium on Muscle-Bone Interaction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy 2019

Symposium on Muscle-Bone Interaction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) 2019 is organized by The University of Glasgow and will be held on Jun 21, 2019 at St. Virgil Salzburg Education- u. conference center, Salzburg, Austria.

Target Audience:
The target audience of this workshop includes clinicians (medical and allied health), translational and basic researchers in the bone and neuromuscular fields. It is hoped this symposium will gather neuromuscular and bone/endocrine experts together to work towards implementing the updated standards of care and to discuss the path forward to mitigate the extent of skeletal morbidity in DMD.

Conference Aim:
The aim of this symposium is to focus on bone health in DMD including the updated standards of care (2018) and developing clinical research in the area. In particular, this symposium aims to disseminate discussions of the recent 236th European Neuromuscular Centre International Workshop (1st - 3rd June 2018) on developing osteoporosis clinical trials in DMD to a wider audience. The impact of new osteoporosis agents and emerging muscle investigative agents on bone development will be discussed.

Conference Content:
This workshop is an educational scientific forum with a panel of experts, aiming to to address the following main aspects :
• An update on the muscle and bone cross talk in the context of neuromuscular conditions.
• The extent of osteoporosis in DMD and implementation of the updated bone/endocrine international standards of care (2018).
• New bone therapeutic agents in DMD and glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.
• Investigative agents in DMD trials and impact on skeletal development.
• Discussion on collaborative projects and research in the area.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.