The Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University offers participation in the course Bone Biology this October 2024 in Sandbjerg Estate, Sønderborg.

Practical information

Dates: 21-25 October 2024
Venue: Sandbjerg Estate, Sandbjergvej 102, 6400 Sønderborg

Application deadline: 23 August 2024
Read more and sign up at Aarhus University’s website

Criteria and requirements for participation

You must have obtained a university degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

As this is an introductory course, no previous experience in bone biology is necessary.

Course aim

To give you an overview of the bone biology under normal, physiological, and pathophysiological conditions, bone therapies, and basic and advanced methodologies in bone research.

Learning outcomes

You will obtain knowledge about bone cells and bone biology under physiological and pathophysiological conditions such as osteoporosis, rheumatology, rare bone diseases, cancer-induced bone diseases, and parathyroid and kidney diseases, as well as their current therapies. Moreover, you will obtain basic knowledge about clinical and pre-clinical bone study design, in vitro cell cultures, serum bone markers, bone epidemiology, pre-clinical and clinical computed tomography (CT) and DEXA, and bone pathology and histology. Finally, you will learn to identify the strengths and weaknesses in your PhD-study, and network with fellow PhD students within the bone field.

Workload

The full workload of the course is expected to be 87 hours