Recipients
Adam Baxter-Jones
Millions of Canadians are afflicted by osteoporosis, arthritis and other diseases of the bones and joints that cause pain, disability and death. As our population ages, these bone health problems are becoming an increasing public health challenge. The Bone and Joint Imaging Group studies the factors that affect bone health, right from the womb and early childhood, through adolescence to adulthood and old age. The group draws on broad range of expertise, with membership from the U of S Colleges of Arts and Science, Dentistry, Engineering, Kinesiology, and Medicine. BIG also draws upon a 17-year, long-term study of Saskatchewan children that allows the researchers to study how factors such as nutrition and exercise during critical growth periods such as adolescence affects bone strength in middle age. The group will also harness the unparalleled imaging technologies of the Canadian Light Source synchrotron to look directly inside living bone. In the process, they will advance knowledge of how bone diseases develop, create new methods of early detection, and point the way to new ways to prevent and treat these diseases.
