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McGill University is the host institution for the Skeletal Health training program, which was approved for funding in March 2002 in the first round of CIHR Strategic Training Initiatives. The program is supported by the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health & Arthritis and the Institute of Gender & Health in collaboration with the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, the McGill Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Graduate Studies & Research, by the Canadian Arthritis Network and by private sector partners that include Biomep Inc, Biosyntech Inc, Merck Frosst Canada and Phenogene Inc.
The first cohort of scholars has signed the Skeletal Health Training Agreement and will enter the program in January 2003. Their training, at the graduate and post-graduate level, is in tissue engineering of joints, molecular biology of skeletal development, translational research in bone cancer, periodontal disease and the treatment and epidemiology of osteoporosis. The program will also provide training at the undergraduate level to summer students and to allied health professionals, as well as to the consumer public in the form of a mini-med lecture series. Trainees will interact with investigators whose research expertise extends from molecular genetics to population health in a series of unique Intensive Summer Workshops, the first of which will be hosted in Montreal in July 2003 prior to a joint Canadian Connective Tissue and Skeletal Health Training Conference. The Centre for Bone & Periodontal Research in Montreal serves as a platform for technical training in the use of advanced instrumentation and specialized analytical techniques for mineralized tissue research.
