Research Blog & News

On June 29th – July 1st we met in Riederau at the Ammersee at our 2nd FerrOs Retreat. Since we were not able to meet face-to-face at our 1st retreat, we were all more than happy to get together in real life and listen to the presentations of our eight FerrOs projects.

Since the University of Pennsylvania announced their breakthrough discovery of the FOP gene ACVR1 at April 23, 2006, this date is now celebrated as International FOP Awareness Day! This year marks the 16th anniversary of the discovery of the FOP gene meaning 16 years of hope, progress and determination to find a cure.

The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy from University of Toronto, Canada, awarded six Alumni Awards (https://www.pharmacy.utoronto.ca/news-announcements/exceptional-alumni-recognized-through-second-annual-alumni-awards) in different categories recognizing the remarkable achievements of alumni in pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical sciences.

We proudly present the new article by Silvia Colucci, Sandro Altamura and Martina Muckenthaler from our FerrOs Research Group on "Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells Suppress Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 Production in Response to TGFβ Pathway Activation" that was just published in Hepatology (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33982327/).

Our second FerrOs Webinar took place on September 28th. The FerrOs members were very keen on listening to the excellent talk of Delphine Meynard, who presented her newest work on the role of matripase-2 as a novel therapeutic target in diseases with ineffective hematopoiesis. Besides the stimulating talk, it was great to see each other again and get to know new members of the FerrOs consortium.

We proudly present our new review on "Shaping the bone through iron and iron-related proteins" that was just published in Seminars in Hematology  (https://doi.org/10.1053/j.seminhematol.2021.06.002).