The IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna, Italy has started recruitment of patients for two clinical studies. And the Italian OI organization As.It.OI (Associazione Italiana Osteogenesi Imperfetta Onlus) is helping with recruitment. The first 4Frailty project “Intelligent sensors, infrastructures and management models for the safety of fragile patients” – involves the use of an advanced…
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…
Interview with Professor Amaka Offiah, University of Sheffield and honorary consultant pediatric radiologist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital Who are you and what is your relationship to OI? I work as a professor at the University of Sheffield, employed by the University of Sheffield but I am also an honorary consultant pediatric radiologist at Sheffield Children’s…
Clinical trial: Investigating Denosumab in children with OI Interview with Dr. Jörg Oliver Semler, Paediatrician, OIFE Medical Advisory Board (MAB) How did the project of investigating denosumab in children start? Regarding the use of denosumab in OI there are a few projects which have to be separated. At the beginning there were a few case…
