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Annual Meeting
The OSSD Annual Meetings offer researchers from across all biomedical research areas and disciplines the opportunity to present and discuss sex differences research. The meeting structure allows ample time for interaction and discussion among all attendees.
OSSD held its Third Annual Meeting on June 4-6, 2009 at the Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel in Toronto, ON Canada. More than 140 participants from the US, Canada, and abroad enjoyed a welcome reception, keynote and capstone lectures, seven interdisciplinary panel presentations, two poster sessions, and an awards banquet.
Drs. Jeannie T. Lee and Virginia M. Miller delivered the keynote and capstone lectures (respectively), and twenty-six scientists presented their research during the symposia. The panel topics included sex differences in pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics and drug development; childhood obesity: sex differences in manifestations and mechanisms; sex chromosomes and autoimmunity; sex and gender differences in progenitor and stem cells: implications for tissue injury, repair, and regeneration; sex-based cerebrovascular biology and stroke; sex and gender differences in knee osteoarthritis (OA); and sex differences in cognition.
Four new investigators received poster presentation awards, including the Florence P. Haseltine award for best new investigator presentation, won by Elizabeth Townsend from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
For more information on the 2009 program, please click here.
The OSSD Fourth Annual Meeting will take place in Ann Arbor, MI on June 3-5, 2010. Please view the 2010 Meeting page for more information.
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