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BMA2026: The 9th International Meeting on Bone Marrow Adiposity

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Short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Travel grants and abstract prizes will be awarded to top-scoring abstracts.

Day 1 – Thursday 10th September

08:30–09:00

Registration and welcome

09:00–09:15

Welcome - Introduction
Speaker(s): Local organising committee

SESSION 1: New methods and models for BMA analysis

(Plenary)

09:15–09:45

Invited Lecture 1: Adipogenic phenotype from the inside and outside, the impact of cell identity and diet
Speaker: Alexander Rauch (University of Southern Denmark)

09:45–10:15

Invited Lecture 2: to be confirmed
Speaker: Kelsey Collins (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco)

10:15–11:00

Short talks
Selected from abstracts

11:00–11:30

Coffee Break
Posters

SESSION 2: BMAT, haematopoiesis and malignancies

(Plenary)

11:30–12:00

Invited Lecture 3: BMAT and acute myeloid leukaemia
Speaker: Paolo Gallipoli (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK) 

12:00–12:30

Invited Lecture 4: BMAT and multiple myeloma
Speaker: Michaela Reagan (MaineHealth Institute for Research)

12:30–13:30

Short talks and poster pitching

Selected from abstracts

13:30–14:30

Lunch break and posters
 

SESSION 3: Population-scale BMA analyses – BMAT, bone, and beyond

(Plenary)

14:30–15:00

Invited Lecture 6: Body composition analyses in UK Biobank
Speaker: Louise Thomas (University of Westminster, London, UK)

15:00–15:30

Invited Lecture 7: To be confirmed
Speaker: To be confirmed

15:30–16:15

Short talks

Selected from abstracts

16:15–16:45

Coffee Break

Posters

16:50–17:15

BMAS General Assembly
Organiser: BMAS
Speaker: Bram van der Eerden (BMAS President)

17:20–18:20

Trainee Session - Round-table Networking and Skills Development with invited speakers

Gala dinner
19:00–21:30 (150 min)
Type: Social/General

Day 2 – Friday 11th September

SESSION 4: BMAT endocrine and cardiometabolic functions

(Plenary)

08:30–09:00

Invited Lecture 8: Novel mechanisms of lipolysis in BMAT
Speaker: Erica Scheller (Washington University, St Louis, USA)

09:00–09:30

Invited Lecture 9: Dietary impact on BMAT and bone
Speaker: Elizabeth Rendina-Ruedy (University of Oklahoma Health Campus, USA)

09:30–10:30

Short talks

10:30–11:00

Coffee Break

Posters

SESSION 5: Pharmacological modulators of BMAT and bone

(Plenary)

11:00–11:30

Invited Lecture 10: GLP-1R agonists and bone health
Speaker: Morten Frost Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 

11:30–12:00

Invited Lecture 11: GLP-1R agonists in rheumatology
Speaker: Francis Berenbaum (CRSA-Sorbonne Université-Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris)

12:00–13:00

Short talks

Selected from absracts

13:00-14:00

Lunch break

Refreshments/Posters

14:00–15:00

Public engagement session – Bone health in diabetes: how to lose weight without losing bone
Invited speakers and BMAS members

SESSION 6: Future directions for BMA research

KEYNOTE/CLOSING ADDRESS

15:00–15:45 

Keynote
Speakers: Next Gen BMAS members

Awards and Closing remarks

15:45–16:30 
Speaker: Bram van der Eerden (BMAS President)

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