Meeting Program (updated 05.06.2015)

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Tuesday, June 9th, 2015

8:30-10:00	Registration, poster installation
10:15	Welcome: SSB+RM president and EPFL
10:30-11:00	Plenary lecture Chair: P.-H. Vallotton
	Biomaterials in regenerative medicine Matthias Epple, Germany
11:00-12:30	20 Years of Biomaterials
11:00	Research in biomaterials science Marc Bohner
11:20	Industry: Rapid fire presentations - P.-H. Vallotton, Dentsply Implants - G. Rizzoli, anfass Life Technologies - A. Papadimitropoulos, CELLEC Biotek - B-O. Aronsson, Nano Bridging Molecules - D. Cheatham, Stemedica International - G. Pertici, Industrie Biomediche Insubri
12:30-14:00	Lunch buffet, Posters, first BtoB contacts, Exhibition Printer-friendly Poster list
14:00-16:00	BIOFABRICATION Chair: P.-E. Bourban, G.J ter Boo
14:00	Invited lecture Jos Malda, Utrecht, Netherlands
14:30	BF-1 Directional foaming of scaffolds by integration of 3D printing and supercritical CO₂ foaming M.G.M. Marascio (P.E. Bourban, J.A. Månson, D. Pioletti)
14:45	BF-2 Bioprinting de novo cartilage with ECM-based bioink M. Kesti (G. Pagliccia, D. Grande, A. Boss, M. Zenobi-Wong)
15:00	BF-3 Designing patient specific implants fabricated by stereolithography for orbital wall reconstruction V. Varjas (M. Geven, D.W. Grijpma, X. Wang, J. Peng, D. Eglin, L. Kamer)
15:15	BF-4 Fabrication of continuous PDMS_star-PEG gradients for osteochondral regeneration B.M. Bailey (L.N. Nail, M.A. Grunlan)
15:30	BF-5 Elastic, biocompatible and biodegradable electrospun scaffold delivering growth factors for tendon repair O. Evrova (M. Calcagni, E. Bonavoglia, M. Welti, P. Giovanoli, V. Vogel, J. Buschmann)
15:45	BF-6 HiPIMS titanium metallization of PEEK for improved osseointegration K. Thorwarth (G. Thorwarth, C. Voisard, M. Kraft, L. Bernard, J. Patscheider)
16:00-17:00	Coffee, Posters, BtoB contacts, Exhibition Printer-friendly Poster list
17:00-18:30	BIOMATERIALS Chair: K. Maniura, D. Petta
17:00	Invited lecture: Biomaterials in Australia Sally McArthur
17:30	BM-1 Calcium deficiency in β-TCP platelets produced in organic media C. Stähli (J. Thüring, L. Galea, M. Bohner, N. Döbelin)
17:45	BM-2 Fibre composite hydrogels: towards a load-bearing implant for nucleus pulposus replacement A. Khoushabi (P.E. Bourban, A. Schmocker, D. Pioletti, C. Schizas, C. Moser, J.A. Månson)
18:00	BM-3 An injectable formulation of thermo-responsive hyaluronic acid-pNIPAm loaded with gentamicin for infection prophylaxis in an in vivo contaminated fracture model in rabbits G.-J.A. ter Boo (D. Arens, I. Keller-Stoddart, W.-J. Metsemakers, T. Schmid, S. Zeiter, R.G. Richards, D.W. Grijpma, T.F. Moriarty, D. Eglin)
18:15	BM-4 Bisphosphonate-loaded in situ-mineralizing hydrogel for peri-implant bone augmentation U. Kettenberger (P. Procter, D.P. Pioletti)
18:30	BM-5 Tuning the properties of alginate hydrogels for cell microencapsulation F. Noveraz (S. Passemard, V. Crivelli, R. Mahou, F. Borcard, S. Gerber-Lemaire, C. Wandrey)
19:45	Conference Dinner

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

9:00-10:30	BIOMATERIALS Chair: B. Muller, C. Staehli
9:00	BM-6 Optimization of silk mesh for soft tissue reinforcements: preliminary in vitro investigations toward cell-based therapy O. Guillaume, (J. Park, X. Monforte, H. Redl, A. Petter-Puchner, S. Gruber-Blum, A. Teuschl)
9:15	BM-7 Material degradation mechanism and wear modeling of metal-on-metal artificial hip joints S. Cao (S. Mischler)
9:30	BM-8 Ag-nanoparticle formation via electron transfer through peptides S. Kracht (M. Messerer, K.M. Fromm, B. Giese)
9:45	BM-9 Improvement of mechanical properties of 3D printed hydroxyapatite scaffolds by culture of osteoblast-like cells under perfusion flow N. Rimmer (F. Burgio, A. Rohner, P. Chavanne, S. Zimmermann, P. Gruner, R. Schumacher, M. de Wild, A. Papadimitropoulos, I. Martin, M. Beaufils-Hugot, U. Pieles)
10:00	BM-10 From the laboratory to the clinic: a revolutionary surface treatment for bone-anchored implants S. Buchini (R. Curno, P. Péchy, B.-O. Aronsson)
10:15	BM-11 Histology-validated, phase-contrast tomography for visualizing the cerebellum C.N. Bikis (G. Schulz, B. Müller, S.E. Hieber)
10:30-11:00	Coffee and Poster Session Printer-friendly Poster list
11:00-12:00	REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AND TISSUE ENGINEERING Chair: C. Wandrey, W. Shen
11:00	Invited lecture: Should the physician try to perform tissue engineering? P. Frey
11:30	RM-1 Cartilage-mimetic sulfated alginate hydrogels provide a mitogenic 3D niche for chondrocytes via FGF signalling and prevent their de-differentiation E. Öztürk (O. Arlov, L. Li, D. Ornitz, G. Skjak-Braek, M. Zenobi-Wong)
11:45	RM-2 Injectable and memory shape 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering applications A. Béduer (T. Braschler, S. Mosser , P. Fraering , S. Bencherif, D.J. Mooney, P. Renaud )
12:00-13:00	General Assembly
13:00-14:15	Lunch buffet, Posters, BtoB contacts, Exhibition Printer-friendly Poster list
14:15-15:30	REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AND TISSUE ENGINEERING Chair: M. Zenobi-Wong, A. Khimchenko
14:15	RM-3 Explanted tendons remain viable only under in vitro mechanical stimulus S. Wunderli (J. Widmer, U. Silván, J.G. Snedeker)
14:30	RM-4 In-situ crosslinkable, extracellular matrix based scaffold for cartilage repair E. Cavalli (C. Loebel, D. Eglin, M. Zenobi-Wong)
14:45	RM-5 In vitro lymph node to study stromal cell-mediated T cell Migration C. F. Buchanan (M.A. Swartz)
15:00	RM-6 Texture and shape quantification to characterize angiogenesis in tumour tissue M.D. Dominietto (P. Thalmann, S. Lang, S.E. Hieber, G. Schulz, B. Müller)
15:15	RM-7 Synthetic extracellular microenvironments for neuroepithelial differentiation A. Ranga (A. Meinhardt, D. Eberle, E. Tanaka, M.P. Lütolf)
15:30-16:00	YOUNG SCIENTISTS FORUM Chair: L. Galea
15:30	Invited lecture: The journey of a (bio)materials scientist to industry Simone Rizzi
16:00	AWARDS Research Award Best poster and oral presentation
16:15	CONCLUSIONS
16:30	End of the SSB+RM 2015