Many thanks to all who contributed to the success of the Cambridge meeting: speakers, oral & poster presenters, delegates and organisers. A special thank you is also reserved for the sponsors.

Congratulations to the BORS Prize winners at the meeting:
N Hopper (Cambridge) ADIPOSE-TISSUE DERIVED STEM CELLS IN MUSCULOSKELETAL REPAIR AND REGENERATION.
J Smith (Southampton) for an oral poster on A TISSUE ENGINEERING APPROACH WITH TANTALUM TRABECULAR METAL TO ENHANCE BONE-IMPLANT INTEGRATION

The Executive Committee of BORS would like to recruit two Young Investigators to sit on the committee and represent the views of the younger members of the Society. Interested members should submit a short CV and a paragraph outlining how they would enhance the profile, contribution and interaction of younger members within the Society. Deadline for submission to the Honorary Secretary, Professor Gordon Blunn (g.blunn@ucl.ac.uk) is 11 March 2011

The prize winners of this session at the BOA/IOA Combined Meeting in Dublin were:

RIVAROXIBAN VS ENOXAPARIN: SHORT-TERM OUTCOME OF LOWER LIMB ARTHROPLASTY PATIENTS ENROLLED IN AN ENHANCED RECOVERY PROGRAMME
P. Buddhdev, F. Tudor, D. Basu, N Davies, T. Waters
The Hip & Knee Unit, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

SILVER AND IODINE DRESSINGS LOWER STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS COUNTS IN A COMPLEX CONTAMINATED EXTREMITY WAR WOUND MODEL H.C.Guthrie1,2, K.R.Martin1, J.C.Clasper2, S.A.Watts1.
1Department of Biomedical Sciences, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, Wiltshire, UK 2Acadamic Department for Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

The BORS-US 2009 travelling fellows attended the American ORS meeting in Las Vegas, 22-25th February 2009 before visiting centres in California, Minnesota, Philadelphia and New York. Check out their exploits on the 2009 Fellows Blog.

The successful applicants were Nicholas Dunne, Jim Huntley, Tom Joyce, Wasim S Khan, Ines Reichert and Sarah Snelling

The winning talk from the BORS session at the British Hip Society meeting was presented by Ben Ollivere:

VARIATIONS IN CYTOKINE TISSUE EXPRESSION MAY BE USED TO PREDICT FAILURE IN TOTAL JOINT ARTHROPLASTY B Ollivere, R Evans-Gowing, J Wimhurst, S Donell, I Clark

The two highly commended presentations were:

FORCED AIR WARMING VERSUS CONDUCTIVE FABRIC BLANKETS: A RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF LAMINAR FLOW DISRUPTION M Albrecht, PD McGovern, C Nachtsheim, MR Reed Presented by Paul McGovern

NECK NARROWING OF RESURFACED HIPS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED WEAR G. Grammatopoulos, A. Callistri, H. Pandit, P. McLardy-Smith, R. Gundle, K. DeSmet, D. W. Murray, H. S. Gill Presented by George Grammatopoulos