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Research Funded by the OI Foundation
2007 Research Update
2006 Research Update
35 years of OI Foundation Research
Summaries of OI Foundation Scientific Meetings
Read the report from the 2006 "New Research and Clinical Strategies in OI" scientific meeting. More than 50 clinicians and researchers gathered to discuss the current status and future course of clinical care and research. This was the fifth OI Foundation Scientific Meeting. It was sponsored by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the Office of Rare Diseases, and the Buchbinder Family.
Read a summary from the 2005 International Science Meeting on OI.
Read the report from the 2004 Mild Forms Of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI): Molecular Basis, Natural History, and Treatment. Twenty-five clinicians and researchers gathered to discuss the current status and future course of clinical care and research into treatments for Mild OI. This was the fourth OI Foundation Scientific Meeting. It was sponsored by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the Office of Rare Diseases, and the Buchbinder Family.
Read the report from the 2003 "New Research Strategies in OI" scientific meeting. Clinicians and researchers gathered to discuss the current status and future course of OI research into treatments and the potential for a cure.
Research Articles
Articles mentioned in Research Update: Bisphosphonate Studies Spring 2009
Cochrane Review: Bisphosphonate Therapy for Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Abstract from Effects of Bisphosphonates in Children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta:
an AACPDM Systematic Review
Abstract from Clinical Review: Bisphosphonate Use in Childhood Osteoporosis
Other Articles:
Discovery: Recessive Forms of OI.
Recent discoveries expand our understanding of OI. This article summarizes the new information and explains why this discovery is important.
Recessive Form of OI Discovered
Reprint of article from Breakthrough November 2006.
Genetic Cause for Recessive Form of Lethal OI Discovered by Foundation's Medical Advisory Council Member
Reprint of article from Breakthrough February 2007. | 
