| Deadline for abstracts: 11 February 2005 
 For full details and abstract submission form please see the Symposium website.
 Speakers to include:
 Roland Baron (New Haven, USA): Approaches to anabolic agents for bone
 Roger Bouillon (Leuven, Belgium): Advances in Vitamin D pharmacology
 Henry Bryant (Indianapolis, USA): SERMs Where next?
 Hal Ebetino (Cincinnati, USA): The applications of phosphonate chemistry to bone pharmacology
 Lorie Fitzpatrick (Thousand Oaks, USA): Therapeutic strategies based on blockade of the RANKL/RANK/OPG system
 Ross Garrett (San Antonio, USA): Approaches to anabolic drugs via statins and the proteasome pathways
 Anthony Hollander (Bristol, UK): Engineering new tissues for bone and joint disease
 Stephen Krane (Boston USA): Current and future therapies in arthritis and connective tissue disease
 Donald McDonnell (Durham, USA): Estrogen receptor pharmacology
 Gregory Mundy (San Antonio, USA): Pharmacological approaches to interfering with tumour cell interactions in bone
 Ed Nemeth (Toronto, Canada): The calcium sensing receptor as a drug target
 Jack Martin (Melbourne, Australia): Cellular coupling revisited. Communication between osteoblasts and osteoclasts
 Jude Onyia (Indianapolis, USA): Molecular mechanisms of PTH action
 Larry Raisz (Farmington, USA): Prostaglandins and bone in 2005
 René Rizzoli (Geneva, Switzerland): Entering the era of the dual action bone agent
 Michael Rogers (Aberdeen, UK): Molecular insights into bisphosphonate actions
 Tim Spector (London, UK): Update on osteoarthritis: pathogenesis and treatment
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