American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) is a professional, scientific and medical society established in 1977 to promote excellence in bone and mineral research and to facilitate the translation of that research into clinical practice. The ASBMR has a membership of nearly 4,000 physicians, basic research scientists, and clinical investigators from around the world.

The mission of the ASBMR is to promote excellence in bone and mineral research, foster integration of clinical and basic science, and facilitate the translation of that science to health care and clinical practice. The Society’s broad goals include supporting the educational development of future generations of basic and clinical scientists, and disseminating new knowledge in bone and mineral metabolism.

In the 1970s, a growing number of US-based scientists began to focus their research on the understanding of basic bone biology and the disease osteoporosis. This led to the rise of a new field – bone and mineral research. In 1974, while attending the annual meeting of The Endocrine Society in Chicago, Illinois, USA, bone scientists Louis Avioli, Claude Arnaud, Norman Bell, William Peck, John Potts and Lawrence Raisz, along with Shirley Hohl, met at the Drake Hotel. The group laid the groundwork for an organization that would promote the study of bone and mineral research, support scientists involved in such research, and facilitate the discussion and exchange of new developments in the field. Three years later, in November 1977, the group’s goals were realized with the official incorporation of the ASBMR as a nonprofit organization in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The first ASBMR Annual Meeting was held June 11–12, 1979 at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California, USA with approximately 150 people in attendance.

The ASBMR grew modestly in its first ten years of existence. Its primary activity in the early years was convening an annual bone and mineral research scientific meeting in conjunction with The Endocrine Society meeting. As interest in the bone and mineral field expanded, however, so too did the Society’s activities and scope.

In 1984, the ASBMR leadership recognized that a need existed for a patient-focused organization whose mission it would be to address patient and public education on the disease of osteoporosis and to promote lifelong bone health. That same year, ASBMR leaders established The Osteoporosis Foundation, which was later renamed the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

The Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (JBMR®), the official journal of the ASBMR, was established in 1986 initially as a bi-monthly publication, but transitioned to a monthly journal in 1990. The publication of the JBMR® expanded the Society’s ability to disseminate cutting-edge research on bone and mineral metabolism year-round and helped to broaden the field’s audience to researchers and clinicians outside of North America. Lawrence G. Raisz served as the first Editor-in-Chief of the JBMR®.

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