On May 17th and 18th 2017 the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine (SSB+RM) took place at Empa in St. Gallen. Besides general topics in the field of Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine the focus theme of the conference was on “Advances in Antimicrobial Biomaterials”. Summary of the meeting now available in the annual meeting report.