Tissue Engineering Today, Not Tomorrow

The one day meeting entitled Tissue Engineering Today, Not Tomorrow to be held on November 17th in London. A packed agenda (see below) and plenty of opportunity for discussion and networking:

Agenda
09:00 - 09:30 Registration tea/coffee and biscuits
09:30 - 09:40 Introduction by the Chair - Professor Anne Dickinson, University of Newcastle
09:40 - 10:10 Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine. - Dame Julia Polak - Imperial College, London, UK10:10 - 10:30 Harnessing immunological tolerance in the pursuit of stem cell therapies - Dr Paul Fairchild - University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, UK
10:30 - 10:50 Talk title to be confirmed- Professor Catherine Sarraf, Tissue Engineering Centre, Westminster University, UK
10:50 - 11:10 Stem cells in Tissue Engineering - Dr Susan Donath - Miltenyi Biotec, Germany.
11:10 - 11:40 Mid-morning break: tea/coffee
11:40 - 12:00 Injectable materials as stem cell delivery sytems - Professor Kevin Shakesheff, - University of Nottingham, UK
12:00 - 12:20 Comparison Of Immunomodulation By Human Stem Cells From Amnion And Adipose Tissue - S. Wolbank, Red Cross Transfusion Center for Upper Austria, Austria
12:20 - 12:40 Electrospinning of Fibrinogen Nanofibers - Mrs T Morton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch
13:40 - 14:00 Scaffold screening in engineered meniscal cartilage using MRI and MRS - Dr. Andre Neves - University of Cambridge, UK
14:00 - 14:20 Talk title to be confirmed - Professor Farzin Farzaneh, Kings College London, UK
14:20 - 14:40 Towards Myocardial Infraction Therapy: A New Inducible Angiogenesis Carrier For Cradiomyocytes Transplantation - Dr Hossein Hosseinkhani, International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, JAPAN
14:40 - 15:00 Afternoon Tea
15:00 - 15:20 Updates on biodegradable materials for tissue repair & regeneration - Prof . Nureddin Ashammakhi, Institute of Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University & Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Shropshire, UK
15:20 -15:40 Tissue engineering using advanced biomaterials and evaluation using model systems - Dr Xiao Nong-Wang, University of Newcastle, UK
15:40 - 16:00 Ocular Surface Restoration By Ex Vivo Cultivated Limbal Epithelium On Amniotic Membrane. - Dr Marta Calatayud, Department of Ophthalmology. Cornea and Ocular Surface Unit. Vall d´Hebron Hospitals. Barcelona, Spain
16:00 - 16:20 Development of scaffolds and bioreactors for clinical scale tissue engineering - Prof. Julian Chaudhujri - University of Bath, UK
16:20 - 16:30 Discussion & Close

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