Yesterday the lab attended the 8th Annual Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. This was our first conference as a full group. Dirk presented a talk titled “Substrate identification for the ADAMTS17 protease and its role in Weill-Marchesani-like Syndrome.” Nandaraj, Stelios, Zerina, Sarah, and Bran all displayed abstracts during the poster session. Overall, it was a success for the lab and we look forward to attending again next year!
“Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature by the careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease. For it has been found in almost all things, that what they contain of useful or of applicable nature, is hardly perceived unless we are deprived of them, or they become deranged in some way.”
-William Harvey (Physician-Scientist), 1578-1657