Karen Houseknecht to present at American Society for Bone and Mineral Research annual meeting

Karen Houseknecht, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, will give a presentation the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research annual meeting, which will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, Oct 4-7, 2013.

The presentation, titled "Second generation antipsychotic drugs have direct effects on the skeleton via G-protein coupled neural receptors: Implications for bone and energy metabolism,鈥 is the focus of Houseknecht鈥檚 National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research grant and highlights her collaboration with Dr. Cliff Rosen at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute.

Other 51小黄车authors on the paper include Rachel Mayer and Shail Patel, both students in the College of Pharmacy, as well as John Streicher, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical sciences and the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, Dan Brazeau, Ph.D., associate research professor in the College of Pharmacy, and Deborah Barlow, a College of Pharmacy research technician.
 

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