Keynote Speaker:
Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.
2012 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA)
Kyoto University

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Symposium 1: Osteoporosis: anabolic agents
Chairs: Toshiyuki Yoneda, Jack Martin 

Targeting sclerostin in the development of therapeutics for bone disorders
David Ke (Amgen, Inc., USA) 

Eldecalcitol for osteoporosis
Toshio Matsumoto (The University of Tokushima, Japan) 

Potential therapeutic targets for age-related bone loss
Sundeep Khosla (Mayo Clinic, USA) 

Symposium 2: Osteoporosis: anti-resorptive agents
Chairs: Takashi Nakamura, Ian Reid  

Japanese experiences in the use of bisphosphonates
Hiroshi Hagino (Tottori University, Japan) 

Denosumab for osteoporosis
Richard Eastell (The University of Sheffield, UK) 

Odanacatib treatment for osteoporosis
Henry Bone (Michigan Bone and Mineral Clinic, USA) 

Symposium 3: Osteoporosis: pathophysiology and epidemiology
Chairs: Toshitsugu Sugimoto, Roger Bouillon 

Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) on the risk of fracture in older patients with osteoporosis
Toshitaka Nakamura (University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan)

 Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
Juliet Compston (University of Cambridge, UK)

 Pathogenesis and treatment of patients with low BMD
Seiji Fukumoto (The University of Tokyo Hospital, Japan)

Symposium 4: Cancer and bone: basic, translational, and clinical
Chairs: Yoshiya Tanaka, Theresa Guise 

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition of breast cancer in bone
Toshiyuki Yoneda (Indiana University, USA/ Osaka University, Japan)

Constituents of the hematopoietic stem cell niche
Paul Frenette (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)

Cancer and bone: basic, translational and clinical.
Robert Coleman (The University of Sheffield, UK)

Symposium 5: Muscle and bone
Chairs: Masaaki Inaba, Chris Kovacs  

Effects of aging on muscle and bone
Steve Cummings (University of California, San Francisco, USA)

Osteoporosis in men 
Eric Orwoll (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)

Towards the elucidation of androgen signaling in skeletal muscles
Daniel Metzger (Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), France)

Symposium 6: Tissue Engineering
Hideki Yoshikawa, Henry Kronenberg  

Chondrocyte differentiation and direct conversion to chondrogenic cells
Noriyuki Tsumaki (Kyoto University, Japan)

Coordinated regulation of bone remodeling and fat formation by the Zinc Finger Protein 521 and its interactions with Ebf1
Roland Baron (Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA)

Stem cell populations and signals that regulate bone regeneration
Regis O'Keefe (The University of Rochester Medical Center, USA)

Symposium 7: Osteoctye
Chairs: Naoyuki Takahashi, Stavros Manolagas  

Osteocytes acting like osteoclasts and osteoblasts
Lynda Bonewald (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)

The material and structural basis of the earlier gain and later loss of bone’s material and structural strengths
Ego Seeman (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Osteocytes and bone resorption
Hiroshi Takayanagi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)