• 1988
  - IFOPA established
• 1989
  - FOP Collaborative Research Project
    established
• 1990
  - First Jud Bogard Golf Tournament
    for Bone Research
• 1991
  - First International Symposium on FOP (Philadelphia, PA)
  - First FOP Family Meeting; Orlando, FL
• 1992
  - FOP Research Laboratory established at The University of 
    Pennsylvania
• 1993
  - FOP Family Meeting: Nashville, TN
  - National Institutes of Health grant awarded
  - Orthopaedic Research & Education grant awarded
• 1994
  - FOP Family Meeting; Orlando, FL
• 1995
  - Second International Symposium on FOP (Philadelphia, PA)
  - Ian L. Cali Research Fund established at The University of PA
  - FOP Family Guidebooks printed
• 1996
  - Articles published in The New England Journal of Medicine and   Science
• 1997
  - Isaac and Rose Nassau Professorship of Molecular Orthopaedics   established in support of FOP research
  - FOP Family Meeting; Orlando, FL
  - First German FOP Meeting held in Waltenhofen, Germany
• 1998
  - FOP laboratory space expanded
  - Northeast Regional Meeting for Adults with FOP
  - Influential article, "A Few Hundred People Turned to Stone"   appears in Atlantic Monthly magazine
• 1999
  - "The Skeleton Key" aired on the BBC's Horizon TV program
  - FOP featured on ABC's 20/20 TV program
• 2000
  - Third International Symposium on FOP (Philadelphia, PA)
• 2001
  - Stephen L. Roach-Whitney Weldon Fund established at the Univ.    of Penn. to focus on the genetic aspects of FOP research
  - Clinical trial of a potential treatment for FOP, Squalamine
• 2002
  - First United Kingdom Symposium on FOP in Manchester, England
  - Formation of the UK FOP Support Group
• 2003
  - FOP featured in prominent German magazine "Der Spiegel"
  - FOP Family Meeting, Orlando, FL
  - IFOPA celebrates its Fifteenth Anniversary
  - First French Meeting on FOP in Fontenay-Aux-Roses, France
  - The First Latin American FOP Meeting in Brazil
• 2004
  - The First Scandinavian FOP Meeting in Sweden
  - Flight for a Cure toured around the world, raising FOP awareness       and funds for the IFOPA
• 2005
  - Discovery of a transgenic animal model for FOP (called FOPPY           mice)
  - Discovery of new BMP Pathway Targets for therapy
  - FOP Makes Washington Plea
• 2006
  - FOP Gene Discovered
• 2007
  - Fourth International Symposium on FOP
  - The First FOP Italia meeting in Italy

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