ISBM History

ISBM is a non-profit research 501(c)3 organization with origins in a series of Workshops on Bone Morphometry, the first of which was held in Ottawa in 1973. Our core mission is to educate and train clinicians and scientists in all aspects of bone morphometry, to provide a forum for experts to share and develop their research, to set standards within the field for skeletal imaging and morphometry, and to advance novel therapies to support lifelong skeletal health. This includes histologic, tomographic, and other advanced imaging modalities for basic, translational, and clinical studies in skeletal tissues to assess how bone cells function and respond to a variety of influences, such as hormones, cytokines, growth factors, and biomechanical forces as well as drugs used to treat bone disorders.

ISBM Founding Board of Directors:
Hartmut H. Malluche, MD
University of Kentucky,
Division of Nephrology,
Bone & Mineral Metabolism,
800 Rose Street, MN 564,
Lexington, KY 40536,0084
Gastone Marotti, MD
Instituto di Anatomia umana
Policlinico Via Del Pozzo 71
Modena, Italy 431100
Pierre J. Meunier, MD
Unite ISERM 234 Hospital
Edouard Herriot Pavillion F
Lyon Cedex 3, 69437 France
A Michael Parfitt, MD
Bone & Mineral Research
Laboratory, Education &
Research Building, 7092,
Detroit, MI 48202,2689
Flemming Melsen, MD
University Institute of
Pathology Aarhus
Amtssygehus DK 8000,
Arhus C Denmark
Hideaki E. Takahashi, MD
Department of Orthopedic
Surgery, Niigata University
School of Medicine,
Niigata City, 951 Japan
Marie-Claude Faugere, MD
University of Kentucky,
Division of Nephrology Bone
& Mineral Metabolism,
800 Rose Street, MN 564,
Lexington, KY 40536,0084
Robert Recker, MD
Center for Hard Tissue
Research,
601 N. 30th Street, Suite 5740,
Omaha, NE 68131