ICMRS W J Young Investigator Award Abstract Submission Guidelines:

• Write your abstract in Microsoft Word using Times New Roman.  A template is available below to create your abstract.
• Be sure that all text (including title, authors, institutions, and abstract body) fits onto one page, with an abstract body of no more than a 2500-character limit.
• No figures are allowed for abstract submission this time.
• Once you have the one-page abstract, convert it into two PDF files (blind and un-blind formats) and complete the online submission.

Abstract Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

Abstract Template Title

Kenton Lewis¹, Thomas B. Siegel^{1, 2}, Koji L. Fujii¹, Deepak Kumar²

¹University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Email of Presenting Author

Abstract body using the following format:  abstract information must not appear on or outside the margins. Abstracts must be created in a Word document formatted to 8.5” x 11” (21.59cm x 27.94cm) with the following margin settings:  1 inch for all sides. Font should be 12 points for the Title and 11 points for all authors, institutions, and body sections. Times New Roman is the only font approved for use.

Abstract Body (no more than 2500 characters)

(Remember to save abstracts as a PDF before uploading to the submission site.)

Abstracts should fit 1 page.

CALL FOR ICMRS 2023 FALL MEMBERSHIP MEETING AND WEBSTER JEE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS

The International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS) will virtually launch the 2023 Fall Membership Meeting on October 8^th (Beijing Time). This meeting provides a platform for ICMRS members to exchange information on all frontiers of musculoskeletal research and integrate knowledge from diverse research specialties. In an endeavor to enrich the discussion, we will host two keynote talks presented by internationally renowned scientists. In addition, we will also present the Webster Jee Young Investigator Awards to recognize the academic achievements of young ICMRS members. The award recipients will be announced during the membership meeting. Each awardee will receive a certificate/plaque, an honorarium of 500 USD, and is required to give a short presentation about their work online. The 2023 Fall ICMRS Membership Meeting program will be announced soon.

Applicants may find more details about the ICMRS at http://www.icmrs.net.

Eligibility for Webster Jee Young Investigator Award:

• Current ICMRS member (to register: http://www.icmrs.net/join-us)
• Current graduate and/or medical student, post-doc or equivalent, junior faculty and professionals who received Ph.D. or MD for no more than 5 years.
• Has not received the award previously.
• Applicants are not required to be of Chinese heritage.

Selection

Please prepare your abstract for the ICMRS WJ Young Investigator application by following the instructions posted at our website. Your abstract, in both blind and un-blind formats, should be submitted via the following e-mail address: icmrs@icmrs.net, no later than September 5^th, 2023. All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed blindly by a panel appointed by the ICMRS Program Committee. The top-scored abstracts will be selected as the awardee. As a general rule, no more than one award will be given to applicants from the same research laboratory/group/institution in the same awarding cycle.

The annual ICMRS Membership Zoom Meeting was held online on Feburary 25, 2023. Professor Guozhi Xiao, the Program Committee Chair and President-Elect of ICMRS from Southern University of Science and Technology organized and presided over the meeting. Dr. Minghao Zheng, ICMRS president and professor of the University of Western Australia gave a brief summary on the current state of ICMRS and the society’s progresses during the last year under his leadership.

As a tradition, the membership meeting was highlighted by the Webster Jee Young Investigator Awards session. This year’s winners are Drs. Yuantao Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Mingyue Fan (Drexel University), Jiawei Lu (University of Pennsylvania), Yiyang Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Donghao Gan (Southern University of Science and Technology) and Bryan Kwok (Drexel University). A cash prize of $500 and an award plaque will be given to each awardee shortly after the meeting.

This year’s membership meeting has invited two keynote speakers. Dr. Richard Oreffo, Professor in Musculoskeletal Science from the University of Southampton presented a highly exciting talk entitled “New approaches to skeletal cell-based bone regeneration from bench to clinic”. Dr. Ling Qin, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, the University of Pennsylvania, presented her recent scientific findings entitled “Single-cell profiling of skeletal progenitors”.

This meeting has achieved a great success with about 300 ICMRS members and guests attended the meeting. （by Dr. Guozhi Xiao）

Dear ICMRS Members,

Happy New Year 2023!

As the new year begins, ICMRS is proud to announce five new award opportunities with honorarium. These awards are aimed to recognize the research excellency and outstanding service of our members:

a) Lifetime Achievement Award 

b) Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award

c) Distinguished Translational Research Investigator Award

d) Distinguished Basic Science Research Investigator Award

e) Service Medal

Click ICMRS Awards2023.pdf for more information and nomination instructions on each award. All ICMRS members are eligible to receive an award, except as restricted by specific award criteria. The nomination package should be submitted to the Chair of Nomination Committee (qinling@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) before the deadline Sunday, April 30, 2023 (midnight, US EST). We will announce the final awardees and celebrated their achievements in 2023 ICMRS Fall Membership Meeting!

ICMRS Nomination Committee

Dear members of ICMRS,

2022 has been a remarkable year for ICMRS.  We would like to begin this note by saying the global musculoskeletal research could not have made such significant progress without the hard work from you.  

Since our inception, ICMRS has had a clear mission to advance the global musculoskeletal research agenda through excellence in education, research collaboration, and networking. A look back at 2022, our members have made outstanding contribution to the research of musculoskeletal research from different continents in the world. Notably, a remarkable study (Chen et al) published in Nature led by Professors Shunwu Fan and Xianfeng Lin from our ICMRS centre at the Sun Run-Run Shown Hospital at Zhejiang University, which made an international news headline. The team has done crossing species transfer of plant derived sacs known as thylakoids into animal and human cells. Delivering chondrocyte membrane coated nano-thylakoids into the osteoarthritic mouse knee joints slowed down cartilage degeneration after light activation. The team reported for the first time, scientists can use light to synthesis ATP in human and animal cells and cure disease.

During 2022, ICMRSI has improved the financial situation significantly. We have increased our revenue by over $66k. We have now established new research awards including  a) Lifetime Achievement Award,  b) Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award, c) Distinguished Translational Research Investigator Award,  d) Distinguished Basic Science Research Investigator Award. E) ICMRS Service Medals. Announcement for call of award nomination has been made by the nomination committee in December for the deadline in April 2023.  Our membership has increased 11.5% to 709 members.  ICMRS had European chapter at the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Society meeting in Edinburgh and Asia-Pacific Chapter in Australia this year. Two more collaborative centres were established this year, reaching a total of 38 collaborative centres in China. In August 2023, we will have ICMRS centre retreats at Oxford, UK during the meeting of ICMRS Translational medicine in MSK diseases.  We have given over 20 online lectures this year with focus of promoting young investigators. ICMRS wechat public media has attracted more than 4000 followers internationally.  With the great influence an impact on MSK research by our society, we will organise the  International MSK submit 2023 in Broome, Australia on July 2023.  Our society official journals Bone Research and Journal of Orthopaedic Translation continue to lead musculoskeletal research.

Here we like to take an opportunity to thank you all. You are the member of the ICMRS family and have made important contributions to the society.  Our special thanks go to our sponsor Lancet Robotics- Mr. Zhijun Hang and Kun Xian and the ICMRS leadership team -Professors Qing Jiang, Bin Li, Bingyun Li, Qin Ling, Sherry Liu Yang Liu, Guozhi Xiao, Xiaoling Zhang, Xinping Zhang.

At the moment of 2023 cerebration, may warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. May love, safe and prosperity follow you always.

Professor Minghao Zheng                                                         

President of ICMRS                                                                        

The University of Western Australia                                          

Professor Jean Jiang

Board of Director, ICMRS

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

The annual ICMRS-ASBMR Membership Zoom Meeting was held online on September 24, 2022. Professor Guozhi Xiao, the Program Committee Chair and President-Elect of ICMRS from Southern University of Science and Technology organized and presided over the meeting. He started by welcoming all ICMRS members, distinguished professors, and non-member guests to attend the meeting.

Dr. Minghao Zheng,  ICMRS president and professor of the University of Western Australia gave a summary report on the current state of ICMRS and the society’s progresses in the last year under his leadership. Thanks to the hard work of the ICMRS Executive Committee, his team has achieved the initially set goals, including the increase of revenue and establishment of new research awards, expansion of ICMRS membership (709 members) and collaborative centers (38 centers), and growing impact of ICMRS WeChat public media (more than 4000 followers).

As a tradition, the membership meeting was highlighted by the Webster Jee Young Investigator Awards session. This year’s winners are Peng Liao from Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital, Mingjue Chen from Southern University of Science and Technology, Delin Liu from The University of Western Australia, Jun Sun from Weill Cornell Medicine, and Baohong Shi from Xiamen University. A cash prize of $500 and an award plaque will be given to each awardee shortly after the meeting.

This year’s membership meeting has invited two keynote speakers. Dr. Natalie A. Sims from St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research and The University of Melbourne provided a highly fascinating presentation entitled “Using mouse models to understand cortical bone development and degeneration”. Dr. Qing Jiang, the Director and Professor of the center of Diagnosis and Treatment for Joint Disease, Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, presented recent scientific findings from his laboratory titled “Defects in a liver-bone axis contribute to hepatic osteodystrophy disease progression”.

This meeting has achieved a great success with more than 320 ICMRS members and guests attended the meeting. Here are some screenshots of the meeting moments.

（by Dr. Rui Hua）

2022 Australia and ASEAN Development Committee membership meeting of The International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS) was held at Gold Coast, Queensland - 2 August 2022. The members were welcomed by Prof. Jiake Xu, the committee Chair, together with lifetime members of ICMRS, Prof. Ming-hao Zheng, Prof. Hong Zhou, Prof. Yin Xiao, and Prof. Rachel Li. This meeting was highlighted by a speech by Professor Ming-hao Zheng, the current president of ICMRS, sharing the history and goals of ICMRS. Prof. Hong Zhou (Ex-chair of the Board of Directors) and Prof. Rachel Li also shared their experience with ICMRS and their scientific career achievements, exemplifying female scientists in the field. Prof. Yin Xiao also delivered a speech about his recent work and his job in a new institute. Congratulations to Prof. Yin Xiao who has recently become a distinguished Professor at Griffith University, at Gold Coast, Queensland. Thanks to Prof. Yin Xiao who contributed to the local organization of this meeting, including the selection of a very nice local cuisine. Special guests include Prof. Peter Lee from the University of Melbourne and Ph D student Eugenie Macfarlane from the University of Sydney. We appreciate the professional photos taken by Prof. David Haynes. The meeting was organised by the Australia and ASEAN Development Committee Chair, Prof. Jiake Xu. The gathering was a very happy occasion to meet many friends face to face alongside the beautiful beach of the Gold Coast.

Dear Colleagues:

On the occasion of New Year 2022, my best wish to our members of ICMRS is that may prosperity and success come to you. May you win more research grants and publish more papers in prestigious journals.  

Looking back to year 2021, we all have experienced the relentless changes in our global community. In spite of Covid 19 pandemic has disrupted our lives, we have demonstrated our resilience and developed many innovative ideals for engagement with our members throughout the year. ICMRS, has run more than 20 global webinars and two regular membership meetings this year. The attendance rate of the on-line meetings has been always very high ranged between 150 to 300 members.  In year 2021 ICMRS has developed from strength to strength and has increased membership to over 600 members today.  Our society official journals have now become top ranking journals in the field of musculoskeletal research. Bone research has reached impact factor of 13.567 and Journal of Orthopaedic Translation has impact factor of 5.191. For the first time ICMRS has run virtual celebration of new year and holiday break. The performances and shows from our members at the celebration were increasable. Here I like to take an opportunity to thank you all. You are the member of the ICMRS family and have made positive contributions to the society.

Looking forward to year 2022, I am optimistic that the pandemics will have far less impact on our live.  To improve our engagement with members and with our ICMRS collaborative centres in China, I would like to share our three key initiatives with you in the new year

• 1)     ICMRS has invested significant resources and is now in process to establish several awards to recognise the great achievements made by our members for their scientific research and services to the ICMRS community. There will be an career achievement for members in recognition of their life long career achievements in basic research, translational research and/or clinical research, a mid-career research excellent award for our mid-career members aged below 50 and have completed their highest degree for more than 10 years, and ICMRS Community Service Medals to recognise long and diligent service by members to the society.
• 2)     We will continue to run year-round virtual seminars and introduction of education workshop run by the ICMRS collaborative centres in China. To encourage better engagement, the board has implemented bilingual presentations for the virtual seminars and workshops. Our membership meetings have changed being Spring and Summer membership meetings and will continue engagement with ORS and ASBMR annual meetings. 
• 3)     With the uncertainty of pandemic, we hope that the 5th ICMR Conference will be held in Shanghai in November 2022. 

Finally, May warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday and a happy New Year. May love, safe and prosperity follow you always.

Professor Minghao Zheng, MD, PhD, FRCPath FRCPA

President of ICMRS

Medical School, The University of Western Australia

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022

The International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS) will hold its 2022 ICMRS Virtual Spring Membership Meeting in February. 

The membership webinar meeting will be organized to provide a forum for ICMRS members to exchange the information in all frontiers of musculoskeletal research to bridge the knowledge gap between the scholars from different research fields. To recognize the achievement of young ICMRS members, all Webster Jee Young Investigator Finalists will present their work at the meeting and the Awards will be presented to the winners at the meeting. The winners will be announced during the membership meeting and each awardee will receive an award certificate/plaque and a cash award.

All applicants are asked to attend the meeting because the award will only be given to the attendees. Applicants may find details about ICMRS at http://www.icmrs.net. The program of 2022 ICMRS Membership Meeting will be announced soon.

Eligibility

·      Current ICMRS member (for registration: http://www.icmrs.net/join-us)

·      First author of accepted ORS abstract for 2022 annual meeting

·      Current graduate and/or medical student, post-doc or equivalent, junior faculty and professionals who received PhD or MD no more than 5 years

·      Has not received the award previously

·      Applicants are not required to be of Chinese heritage

Selection

The accepted ORS abstract in both blind and un-blind formats should be submitted to the following e-mail address: icmrs@icmrs.net, no later than January 15, 2022. All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed in a blind fashion by a review panel appointed by the ICMRS Program Committee. The top scored abstracts will be selected as the winners. As a general rule, no more than one award will be given to the applicants from the same research laboratory/group.

The annual ICMRS-ASBMR Membership Zoom Meeting was held online on October 9, 2021. Professor, Guozhi Xiao, the Program Committee Chair of ICMRS from Southern University of Science and Technology, hosted the meeting. He started by welcoming all ICMRS members, distinguished professors and nonmember guests to attend the meeting. Professor, Ling Qin, the outgoing president of ICMRS from the University of Pennsylvania, firstly introduced Professor Guozhi Xiao as the new president-elect, followed by her “Outgoing President Speech” in that she gave a summary report on the current state of ICMRS and the society’s progresses in the last two years under her leadership. She stated that, by working closely with the ICMRS Executive Committee, her team re-prioritized the initial goals to meet the challenges posed by unexpected COVID19 pandemic. Achievements in her term include, but not limited to, mask distribution during the pandemic, continuous expansion of ICMRS membership and collaborating centers, membership payment restructuring, establishment of ICMRS Scientific Frontier Webinar Series, and functionalization of ICMRS WeChat public account.  

Next, Professor Minghao Zheng from the University of Western Australia, officially made his inaugural address as the new ICMRS president (term 2021-2023). He delivered a presentation to share with his vision on how to honor the past, celebrate the present and embrace the future,  with the focus on three key areas - commemorate the contribution of past Chinese scholars in the field of musculoskeletal research and education; create more awards for members’ recognition and celebration of achievement and contribution in musculoskeletal research and to the society; and provide an engaging environment for better interactions and collaboration among the members

This year membership meeting has invited two keynote speakers. Dr. Janet Rubin, a Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill provided a highly fascinating presentation entitled “Cells differentiate dynamic from static strain: Nuclear entry of β-catenin, actin and YAP”. Dr. Chuanju Liu, a professor of orthopaedic surgery and cell biology at New York University, presented fundamental scientific findings from his laboratory in “Decoding Anti-inflammatory TNF Receptor 2 Signaling in Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Diseases”.

Following the keynote speeches are our traditional Webster Jee Young Investigator Award ceremony and oral presentations by the six Webster Jee Young Investigator Awardees on their excellent award-winning research work in the field of bone and cartilage biology and diseases. This year’s winners are Xiaohao Wu from Southern University of Science and Technology, Yuhan Xia from Cornell Medical College and Hospital for Special Surgery, Gongsheng Yuan from University of Pennsylvania, Zhongyang Lv from Nanjing University, Xiaoan Wei and Zeyu Zheng both from Zhejiang University. A cash prize of $500 and an award plaque will be given to each awardee shortly after the meeting.

This meeting has achieved a great success with more than 370 ICMRS members and guests attended the meeting. Here are some screenshots of the meeting moments.