Thank you!

Thank you to all who attended the British Orthopaedic Research Society/Bone Research Society Meeting in Newcastle upon Tyne.

We are grateful to all those who made the meeting so worthwhile, including in particular our keynote speakers and sponsors, as well as all those who submitted work for presentation at the meeting.

The programme is available to view here.

Minutes of the 2009 Annual General Meeeting held during the Newcastle meeting.

If you attended, please send us back your feedback form if you haven't already done so. The Committee will take your views into account when planning future meetings. Please email to oas-admin@nottingham.ac.uk

BORS abstracts will be published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br).

A number of awards were made at the meeting:

Podium - 1st Prize

EEF Scott - University of Edinburgh
Muscle tears and their dependence on temperature (EEF Scott, SG Williams, A Muir, AHRW Simpson)

Highly Commended

YM Kwon (read by HS Gill) - University of Oxford
Pseudotumours Following Metal-On-Metal Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty: Metal Ion And Lymphocyte Proliferation Study (YM Kwon, P McLardy-Smith, S Ostlere, R Gundle, D Whitwell, CLM Gibbons, NA Athanasou, HS Gill, DW Murray)

R. Rout (read by AJ Price) - University of Oxford
Evidence for reactive oxygen species induced apoptosis in anteromedial gonarthrosis (R Rout, SM Mcdonnell, S Snelling, X Xia, N Bottomley, P Hulley, AJ Price)

Posters - 1st Prize

Lynette Spalding - Newcastle University
MATRIX EXTRACELLULAR PHOSPHOGLYCOPROTEIN AS AN IMMOBILISED MOTIF TO CONTROL OSTEOBLAST DIFFERENTIATION (L Spalding, AW McCaskie, MA Birch)

Highly Commended

AS Nicholls - University of Oxford
FLUCTUATION IN BODY MASS INDEX DURING MIDDLE AGE AND RISK OF TOTAL KNEE AND HIP REPLACEMENT DUE TO OSTEOARTHRITIS: A 19 YEAR PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 1003 WOMEN
(AS Nicholls, K Javaid, N Bottomley, M Daniels, D Hart, T Spector, AJ Carr, NK Arden)

DJ Simpson - University of Oxford
LINEAR WEAR OF MOBILE UNICOMPARTMENTAL BEARINGS: A 20 YEAR IN-VIVO STUDY.
DJ Simpson, BJL Kendrick, HS Gill, DW Murray, AJ Price

Travel bursaries were awarded to C Ho,S Li, S Saha, M Glaysher, N Kalson, S Tarsuslugil, E Scott, C Lee, J Li-zhang, C Hanlon & R Vicars

Annual Meeting in 2010
British Orthopaedic Research Society
Cardiff
July 12-13, 2010

Dr Debbie Mason
Dr Cathy Holt
Local Organisers

Professor Allen Goodship
BORS President