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The Bouxsein group employs a multidisciplinary strategy with state-of-the-art technologies to study the causes, detection and treatment of skeletal fragility. One in two women and one in five men over the age of 50 will suffer a fragility fracture in their remaining lifetime. Thus, our ultimate goal is to reduce the burden of fractures due to osteoporosis and other bone disorders. The Bouxsein group includes biomechanical engineers, anthropologists, and biologists, and we collaborate closely with molecular biologists, clinicians, imaging specialists, and musculoskeletal epidemiologists. We are funded by grants from the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Child Health and Development, and NASA.

In the news for us — we were recently awarded a grant from NASA to join a consortium of scientists from Amgen, Bioserve Technologies and the University of North Carolina, to conduct an experiment on the last shuttle flight (STS-135), scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral on July 8th, 2011. We will be testing the ability of sclerostin antibody to promote bone formation during exposure to microgravity. See the logo for this project below, and check out the NASA website for details about the project.

We are very excited for this once in a lifetime opportunity. Check back to the website for updates from Cape Canaveral!

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News and Events:
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May 2012
Harvard Magazine trailer for an upcoming article on space-related research being conducted by Harvard faculty members, including our STS-135 experiment looking at bone loss in mice: Space Savers

March 2012
Congratulations to Rachel Ellman and Jordan Spatz for representing the Harvard-MIT Bioastronautics Program at the official opening of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute and Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Space Medicine. The new facility will be used by biomedical researchers to better understand the human health risks associated with long duration space flight, and to develop countermeasures and technologies to mitigate those risks. Also in attendance were Senator Hutchison of Texas, the director of NASA Johnson Space Center Mike Coats, and the director of the NSBRI Jeffrey Sutton. More information on the center can be found here: Area researchers work to keep astronauts healthy in space

February 2012
Congratulations to Alex Bruno and Jordan Spatz for winning 3rd and 5th place in the poster competition at the NASA Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop!

December 2011
Volunteer Decorating at Christmas time through the Harpoon Brewery
Harpoon Volunteer Decorating

October, 2011
Congratulations to Dennis Anderson and Framingham team for manuscript in Journal of Biomechanics reporting trunk muscle regressions for spine modeling [PDF]

September, 2011
Congratulations to Yoo Mee Kim and others for article accepted in Osteoporosis International !
Kim YM, Demissie S, Genant HK, Cheng X, Yu W, Samelson EJ, Kiel DP, Bouxsein ML. Identification of prevalent vertebral fractures using CT lateral scout views: a comparison of semi-automated quantitative vertebral morphometry and radiologist semi-quantitative grading. Accepted by Osteoporosis International, September 2011.

September, 2011
Good luck to John D'Agostino and former lab member Alison Cloutier as they start grad school.

August, 2011
Congratulations to Sean Serell for new job at Conformist!

August, 2011
Congratulations to Sneh Shah for his new job at Terumo!

June, 2011
Check out Devlin and Bouxsein article in special issue of BONE: Bone, Fat and Brain [PDF]

June 29, 2011
Going away / good luck party for Alison, who is leaving the lab to begin a PhD program in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. A fun evening at La Verdad. Good luck Alison!

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June 20, 2011
Congratulations to all the folks who have presentations at the ASBMR annual meeting in San Diego this September: Jordan Spatz (oral presentation and young investigator award!!), Maureen Devlin, PhD (plenary poster), Dennis Anderson, PhD (plenary poster), Ben Roberts (poster) and Yoo Mee Kim, MD, PhD (poster). Well done!

June 16, 2011
Congratulations to Sean Serell for passing his master's thesis defense in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University! Yay.

June 15, 2011
Great lecture at Orthopedic Grand Rounds this morning by astronaut and orthopedic surgeon, Robert Satcher, MD. See all his groupies…
robert satcher at grand rapids

May 23, 2011
Congratulations to Alex Bruno on passing his PhD qualifying exam in the MIT-Health Sciences and Technology Bioastronautics Program!

May 5, 2011
Lab trip to weekday afternoon game at the RedSox! (too bad the Sox lost…)
red sox game

April 2011
Congratulations to Maureen Devlin, PhD, who was promoted to Instructor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School!

April 2011
Congratulations to Alex Bruno for his first conference oral presentation at the GRIBOI annual meeting in Boston.

March 2011
Congratulations to John D'Agostino for being accepted into graduate programs at Northeastern and Tufts!

March 2011
Congratulations to Alison Cloutier on the news that she was awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship!

February 2011
Congratulations to Rachel Ellman for her award for outstanding student poster at the 18th Annual IAA Humans in Space Conference! [link]

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