The 2017 Boy Frame Award for Excellence in Clinical Research was presented to Dr. Andrew Arnold at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research in Denver, CO. This annual award honors the memory of Dr. Frame, a renowned international expert in bone diseases, and the recipient also gives a featured lecture at the ASBMR national meeting. Dr. Arnold, Murray-Heilig Chair in Molecular Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, CT, was recognized for his groundbreaking research on diseases of the parathyroid glands. Dr. Arnold’s lecture was entitled “Uncovering a Parathyroid Tumor Gene” and focused on his group’s discovery of cyclin D1, a molecular driver of parathyroid and other tumors including breast cancer, lymphoma, and myeloma.

Members of the Center for Molecular Medicine recently attended the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Orlando, Fl. Jessica Costa was selected to give an oral presentation; her talk was entitled “Influence of Vitamin D Insufficiency/Deficiency on Cyclin D1-Induced Parathyroid Tumorigenesis”. Kelly Brewer (Arnold lab) presented a poster entitled “Mutational and Copy Number Analysis of Candidate Tumor Suppressor Gene FBXO4 in Sporadic Parathyroid Adenoma” and Aaliyah Riccardi (Arnold lab) presented a poster entitled “PIK3CA Mutational Analysis of Parathyroid Adenomas”.

Scientists Pave Path for Tackling Rare Cancers Without Effective Treatments

Anne Delany, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, has been elected to membership in the Association of Osteobiology. The Association was founded by Dr. Louis Avioli over 20 years ago with the goals of advancing scientific knowledge related to bone biology by fostering academic exchange between leaders in the bone field in United States and other counties. Membership in this prestigious group is very limited and is by election only. Dr. Delany will be inducted at the Association’s annual dinner meeting to be held in Seattle, WA in mid-October.

Fabiana Soki, D.D.S., Ph.D., has been selected to receive a 2016 ASBMR Young Investigator Travel Grant for the abstract presentation “Articular Cartilage Preservation in Mice Lacking Cathepsin K”.

 

Jessica Costa, D.M.D., Ph.D., was selected to present a “HOT Topics” presentation at the 15th International Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia and other rare endocrine tumors (WorldMEN 2016) in Utrecht, Netherlands. Her talk was entitled “Parathyroid-Specific Deletion Of Cdc73/Hrpt2 In Mice Results In Hypoparathyroidism”.