ESCEO and IOF Grants

The European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO) is pleased to announce two Osteoporosis Fellowship Awards, courtesy of a grant of Amgen.

The intent of these awards is to provide support to eligible institutions to develop and enhance the opportunities for physicians or PhD's training for careers in Osteoporosis.

Recipients will be selected primarily on the basis of the quality of the research proposal outlined in the application. Only one application per fellow may be submitted.

The Scientific Advisory Board of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis (ESCEO) will review the applications.

This fifth ESCEO-Amgen Fellowship Awards will be presented during the "Fellowship Awards Ceremony" at IOF-ECCEO12. The recipients will each receive $50,000 US for 1 year to support their fellowship stipend. (Institutions may be asked to certify that funds will be applied towards stipend only. These funds are non-renewable).

All awards applications and supporting materials must be submitted on or before February 13, 2012 through this website and by mail. Late or incomplete packages will not be considered. Applications will be notified of the committee's decision no later than March 15, 2012.

ESCEO fully respects and acknowledges the scientific independency of the Recipient of the ESCEO-AMGEN fellowship program, in particular but not limited to with respect to publications. There shall be no influence on publications prepared and/or published by the Recipient and/or in connection with the fellowship program. However, the recipient of the Fellowship Award shall ensure that any publication manuscript is provided to Amgen at least sixty (60) days prior to submission for publication and Amgen has the limited right to request amendments to be incorporated into the publication, provided these amendments refer to information related to Amgen's confidential business information and/or information infringing Amgen's intellectual property rights. This obligation shall be limited to manuscripts generated in connection with the Award for the fellowship program within 24 months after transfer of the funds from ESCEO to the recipient of the fellowship program.

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The European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) will present in 2011 the second edition of the Pierre Delmas Prize, with the support of Servier.

Pierre Delmas, Professor of Medecine and Rheumatology at the University of Lyon, France, Director of the INSERM research unit "Pathophysiology of Osteoporosis", was an outstanding scientist who directed essential basic and clinical research in metabolic bone diseases, particulary in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis

He was the Founding President of the IOF

Servier, an independant research-orientated pharmaceutical company with a long history of relationships with researchers and clinicians, particulary in the field of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, is proud to participate, as sole sponsor, in the creation of the Pierre Delmas Prize.

The Pierre Delmas Prize will be awarded every year to an individual for outstanding and major scientific contributions to the study of bone and mineral diseases, and consists of a grant of € 40 000 and a medal.

The prize Committee will be composed of remarkable Scientists chosen within the IOF Committee of Scientific Advisors and ESCEO Scientific Advisory Board. The second edition of the Pierre Delmas Prize will be granted in March 2012 in Bordeaux during the IOF-ECCEO12 Congress

Deadline for Applications: December 16, 2011

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