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Congratulations to Julia Griesbach, a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Biomechanics, who was selected for an ASBMR 2023 Young Investigator Travel Grant for her abstract “Effects combining mechanical loading with sclerostin antibody, parathyroid hormone, or bisphosphonate treatment on mechanoregulation in trabecular bone in mice”. The Travel Grants are given to the top Young Investigator members presenting at the ASBMR 2023 Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to Dilara Yilmaz, a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Biomechanics, who was selected for an ASBMR 2023 Young Investigator Travel Grant for her abstract “Prematurely Aging PolgA Mice Exhibit Sex-specific Hallmarks of Musculoskeletal Aging”. The Travel Grants are given top Young Investigator members who will be presenting at the ASBMR 2023 Annual Meeting and include a $750 contribution to support travel to the meeting in Vancouver this October.

Congratulations to Francisco Correia Marques, a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Biomechanics, who was selected for the 2023 ESB Student Award from the European Society of Biomechanics for his abstract “A correlative multimodal imaging approach for spatial transcriptomics mechanoregulation analysis”.

Congratulations to our own Drs. Gian Schädli and Chris Steffi from CompagOs for winning CHF 150,000 at the final stage of Venture Kick. Aiming to overcome the limitations of traditional animal and 2D culture models, the ETH spinn-off is developing an advanced platform that will enable in vitro drug efficacy testing on human patient-specific bone cancer models that more closely replicate the relevant physiological conditions.

Congratulations to Bregje de Wildt on receiving the Rubicon Grant from the Dutch Research Council for her project entitled “Volumetric Bioprinting of a Human Trabecular Bone Organoid Towards Osteocyte Regulation of Bone Remodeling”. The Rubicon program is for scientists who recently obtained their PhD in the Netherlands to gain experience in a foreign institute.