Welcome Coffee
Opening of the BBC Symposium – Bruno Lapauw
Literature overview of the year – Michaël Laurent
General Assembly – Bruno Lapauw
Prize Lectures – Olivier Bruyère
CLINICAL TRACK - Auditorium 1
PRECLINICAL TRACK - Auditorium 2
Theramex Sponsored Symposium
Targeting the right patient at the right time:
a clinical focus on Eladynos, a new anabolic therapy
– Jean-Yves Reginster
Starting from the Basics: Skeletal Stem/Progenitor Cells at the Root of Bone Homeostasis, Regeneration, and Interplay with Systemic Health – Christa Maes
Skeletal dysplasias: from genes to disease mechanisms... and treatments? – Gretl Hendrickx
From pixels to prediction: A decade of advancing bone quality assessment – Harry van Lenthe
X-ray based 3D histology of bone and its related soft tissues – Greet Kerckhofs
Coffee Break
Ethnicity Matters: Rethinking FRAX in Osteoporosis Risk – Eugene McCloskey
Bone tissue engineering: from virtual patients to living implants – Liesbet Geris
Interfaces in bone: the cement line around osteons and the bone-soft tissue junction – Davide Ruffoni
UCB Sponsored Symposium
Treat-to-target in severe osteoporosis:
The role of romosozumab in precision osteoporosis therapy
– Bente Langdahl
Hybrid organic-inorganic coatings for osteoblast interface – Andre Skirtach
Zebrafish as a Powerful Model for Studying Genetic Modifiers: Insights from Osteogenesis Imperfecta – Paul Coucke
Bone first, minerals later: Alternating dietary phosphorous supply increases the bone volume in the zebrafish model – Paul Eckhard Witten
Arterial calcifications: can they be modulated without affecting the bone? – Anja Verhulst
Theramex Sponsored Symposium
Targeting the right patient at the right time:
a clinical focus on Eladynos, a new anabolic therapy
– Jean-Yves Reginster
Coffee Break
Ethnicity Matters: Rethinking FRAX in Osteoporosis Risk – Eugene McCloskey
UCB Sponsored Symposium
Treat-to-target in severe osteoporosis:
The role of romosozumab in precision osteoporosis therapy
– Bente Langdahl
Moderators: V. Dubois & S. Stegen
Starting from the Basics: Skeletal Stem/Progenitor Cells at the Root of Bone Homeostasis, Regeneration, and Interplay with Systemic Health – Christa Maes
Skeletal dysplasias: from genes to disease mechanisms... and treatments? – Gretl Hendrickx
From pixels to prediction: A decade of advancing bone quality assessment – Harry van Lenthe
X-ray based 3D histology of bone and its related soft tissues – Greet Kerckhofs
Coffee Break
Bone tissue engineering: from virtual patients to living implants – Liesbet Geris
Interfaces in bone: the cement line around osteons and the bone-soft tissue junction – Davide Ruffoni
Hybrid organic-inorganic coatings for osteoblast interface – Andre Skirtach
Zebrafish as a Powerful Model for Studying Genetic Modifiers: Insights from Osteogenesis Imperfecta – Paul Coucke
Bone first, minerals later: Alternating dietary phosphorous supply increases the bone volume in the zebrafish model – Paul Eckhard Witten
Arterial calcifications: can they be modulated without affecting the bone? – Anja Verhulst
Lunch Break
Osteoporosis Without Borders: A Global Health Challenge – Kate Ward
Closing the Gender Gap in Osteoporosis Care – Charlotte Verroken
Meet-the-Expert Sessions
- MTE1: Auditorium 1 Stopping & switching therapy in osteoporosis – Michaël Laurent (Sponsored by Celltrion)
- MTE2: Auditorium 2 How to use FRAX in daily practice – Eugène McCloskey
- MTE3: Auditorium 3 ONJ from the maxillo-facial surgeon's perspective – Ruxandra Coropciuc
- MTE4: Auditorium 4 Exercise for bone – Olivier Bruyère

