ASBMR Young Investigator Travel Award Winners:
1. Katie Leach: BIASED SIGNALLING FROM THE CALCIUM-SENSING RECEPTOR (CaSR).
2. Mark Rybchyn: THE UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM OF CaSR-DEPENDENT AKT
SIGNALING IN HUMAN OSTEOBLASTS.
3. Martin Schepelmann: THE CALCIUM-SENSING RECEPTOR (CaSR) REGULATES BLOOD
PRESSURE, VESSEL TONE AND CARDIAC FUNCTION.
4. Amanda Herberger: CONTRIBUTION OF THE PARATHYROID CYP27B1 TO CIRCULATING
1,25(OH)2D LEVELS AND HYPERCALCEMIA.
5. Yi Fan: KLOTHO AND CASR EXPRESSION IN PARATHYROID GLANDS IS CRITICAL TO
REGULATE PTH SYNTHESIS AND PARATHYROID GLAND GROWTH.
6. Polina Yarova: CALCILYTICS AS A NOVEL TREATMENT FOR ASTHMA AND COPD.
7. Cristina Dumitru: HETERODIMERIZATION OF THE CASR AND THE GABA-BR1 ALTERS GPROTEIN COUPLING IN ATT20 AND HEK 293 CELLS.
8. Abhishek Aggarwal: THE CaSR: A NOVEL TARGET IN COLORECTAL CANCER
PREVENTION.
9. Christian Santa Maria: SKELETAL ANABOLISM BY CONCURRENTLY TARGETING THE
PTH1R AND CaSR.
10. Caroline Gorvin: FAMILIAL HYPOCALCIURIC HYPERCALCAEMIA TYPE 3 (FHH3)ASSOCIATED MUTATIONS IN ADAPTOR PROTEIN-2 SIGMA SUBUNIT CAUSE REDUCED
INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM SIGNALLING AND DELAYED OSCILLATION EVENTS.
F.I.R.M.O. Young Investigator Travel Award Winners:
1. Mariangela Galante: POSSIBLE IMPLICATION OF THE EGF LIGAND/EGFR SIGNALLING
PATHWAY IN CASR OVEREXPRESSING BREAST CANCER CELLS OSTEOLYTIC
POTENTIAL.
2. Samawansha Tennakoon: CASR DEPENDENT G-PROTEIN ACTIVATION AND ITS
DOWNSTREAM SIGNALLING IN THE COLON.
ENDO Young Investigator Travel Award Winners:
1. Harry Greenberg: CALCIUM-SENSING RECEPTOR INDUCES VASORELAXATIONS VIA
NITRIC OXIDE GENERATION AND INTERMEDIATE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED
POTTASSIUM CHANNELS.
2. Valerie Babinsky: CASR ALLOSTERIC MODULATORS RECTIFY SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
ABNORMALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH G-PROTEIN ALPHA-11 (Gα11) MUTATIONS CAUSING
FAMILIAL HYPOCALCIURIC HYPERCALCEMIA TYPE 2 (FHH2) AND AUTOSOMAL
DOMINANT HYPOCALCEMIA TYPE 2 (ADH2).
3. Ursula Thiem: CHANGES IN PARATHYROID HYPERPLASIA IN CINACALCET-TREATED
RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS: SUBGROUP ANALYSIS OF A PROSPECTIVE SELFCONTROLLED STUDY ON THE LONG-TERM USE OF CINACALCET FOR POSTTRANSPLANT HYPERCALCEMIC HYPERPARA-THYROIDISM.
4. Wonnam Kim: THE CALCIUM-SENSING RECEPTOR (CaSR) SUPPORTS THE GROWTH OF
BREAST CANCER CELLS IN HIGH CALCIUM ENVIRONMENTS BY STIMULATING
PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN (PTHrP) PRODUCTION.
5. Sarah Brennan: CALCIUM-SENSING RECEPTOR (CaSR) REGULATES HUMAN FETAL LUNG
DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE
RECPTOR (CFTR).