OIFE is a member of the European Rare Bone Forum (ERBF). A while ago they initiated a project to try to get a better overview of the unmet needs in rare bone conditions – especially regarding research & development: https://rarebone.org/news-rare-bone-diseases/projects/ OIFE promised to support the ERBF project a long time ago – but unfortunately some of…
The OI Foundation and the OIFE have partnered on a new project investigating the experience of pain for people with OI. The following survey investigates the experience of pain for people with OI. This survey is for anyone 18 years old or older and was written with input from OI experts from North America and…
On January 23rd the member organizations of OIFE were invited to the OIFE Leadership Meeting 2023. The purpose of the meeting was to inform the organizations about events and activities going on in the OIFE. The agenda included the following topics: News from OIFE incl. clinical trials Launch of OIF & OIFE pain survey EuRR-Bone…
The OIFE Board would like to wish all our friends, followers, member organizations and collaborators a happy and relaxing holiday season. See you in 2023!
December 15th OIFE was represented at a webinar organized by the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) together with several OI professionals. The webinar was about their new call focused on “Natural History Studies addressing unmet needs in Rare Diseases”. If you know about researchers who would be interested in collaborating on an…
REGISTRATION IS OPEN – EARLY BIRD DEADLINE JANUARY 31 Lack of understanding and poor management of pain severely impacts the quality of life of children and adults with OI. Under the title “Balancing life with OI” we are organising a topical meeting on the neglected subject of the causes, assessment and management of pain in…
Interview with Jenny Wang, Shriners Hospitals for Children (SHC) – Canada and Khadidja Chougui, PhD candidate in clinical child and adolescent psychology at Université de Montréal, Canada Jenny Wang: My name is Yi Wen (Jenny) Wang, and I graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Science Nursing degree in 2019 and a Master of…
Interview with Bettina Willie, Professor at McGill University and Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal, Canada Who are you and what is your relationship to OI? I am Bettina Willie, and grew up in Utah, US. I earned a doctoral degree in Bioengineering from the University of Utah and I did my first postdoctoral training…
