In Association With:



Hosted By:

Shanghai 9th People's Hospital,

Shanghai Jiao Tong University,

National Tissue Engineering Center of China

Endorsed By:

The Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering


Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore)


Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society


Japanese Society of Regenerative Medicine


Greeting Messages

TERMIS President: David Williams

Immediate Past-President:Stephen Badylak

Immediate Past-President of KTERM: Jin Ho Lee

President of KTERM: Prof. Byoung Hyun Min

Latest News:

Call for abstract

Submission for late coming abstracts for poster presentation

So far, we have received overwhelming response with hundreds of abstracts from all over the world from more than 30 countries and regions, including Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, USA, Portugal, Swaziland, Hongkong and Taiwan, so on. After the formal closure of the online abstract submission on May 31st 2013, we have received many emails request about the late abstract submission. After the discussion of organisation committee, we decide to continue the opening of abstract online submission and the late coming abstracts will be replaced for poster presentation by default. If you intend to request for oral presentation for the late-coming abstracts, you can contact us and we will arrange it on the individual basis.


2013 TERMIS-AP Conference Program


Welcome Message

Dear Colleagues,

On the behalf of TERMIS-AP and its co-organizers, we would like to invite you to participate in the 2013 annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Chapter of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) from 23-26 Oct 2013 in Shanghai, China.

The main theme of this meeting is to discuss how to accelerate the translation process of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, from the perspective of scientists, bioengineers, clinicians, regulatory officials and so on.

Besides hosting this unique meeting in the vibrant and fascinating city, Shanghai, part of the meeting will be held in Wuzhen, a beautiful and well-preserved ancient waterside town located at the outskirt of shanghai, which is known as the "Venice of the Orient" (http://www.wuzhen.com.cn/english). This meeting also encourage the active participation of young investigator and students, and many exciting events of scientific exchanges and social activities will be arranged in Wuzhen.

We expect to see you all in Shanghai and Wuzhen.

Yours Sincerely,

Yilin Cao, MD, PhD (Conference Chair)
Wei Liu, MD, PhD (Conference Scientifc Chair)
Zhi-Yong Zhang, PhD (Conference Secretary)

2013 TERMIS-AP conference confirmed international invited speakers include:

Arnold Caplan, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Stephen Badylak, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, USA

Kim, Tae Gyun, Korean FDA

Teuro Okano, Tokyo Women Medical University, Japan

Jeong Ok-Grace Lim, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Korea

Yasuhiko Tabata, Kyoto University, Japan

Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto, Canada

Antonios Mikos, University of Rice, USA

LEE, Eng Hin, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Alicia El-Haj, Keele University, UK

David Kaplan, Tufts University, USA

Ivan Martin, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland,

Keith McLean, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Australia

Ranieri Cancedda, University of Genova, Italy

Giuseppe Orlando, Wake Forest University, USA

Song Li, UC Berkeley, USA

30 more international (AP region) and domestic speakers are being confirmed.