Keynote Speakers

Steve Badylak
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. USA
Inventor of the highly successful collagen tissue engineering scaffold, SIS
Joseph Itskovitz
Obstetrics and Gynae, Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel
Authority on embryonic stem cells for therapeutics
Ralf Huss
Roche, Switzerland
Pathologist and expert in stem cell biology for tissue regeneration, now responsible for tissue-based biomarker discovery
Wei Liu
Dept. of Plastic Surgery, 9th People's Hospital Shanghai, China
Plastic Surgeon and leading expert on implanting tissue engineered implants both in animal models and in patients
Ester Middlekoop
Dutch Burns Foundation, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
Internationally recognised expert in dermal wound repair and tissue engineering of skin (Past President European Tissue Repair Society)
Xavier Navarro
Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autónomo de Barcelona, Spain
International authority on mechanisms and scaffolds for nerve regeneration
Teruo Okano
Institute of Advance Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan
International authority on engineering of sheet tissue, pioneer of the use of temperature sensitive polymers and substrates
Patrick Pendergast
Director of the Trinity College, Dublin, Centre for Bioengineering, Ireland
Internationally recognised expert in tissue biomechanics, particularly in osteo-chondral tissues
Geoff Raisman
Chair of Neural Regeneration, Institute of Neurology, London
World expert on olfractory ensheathing cells and their use in spinal regeneration
Eva Sykova
Director, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
A huge personal expertise in cell therapies and tissue repair
Bob Tranquillo
University of Minnesota, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, USA
Innovative Bio-engineer and recognised expert in substrate guidance of cells & tissues
Ioannis Yannas
Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT Boston, USA
Inventor of one of the first & most successful scaffolds for tissue engineering