Timetable

Time

Wednesday, May 22nd

09:00

SSB+RM Young Scientists Pre-conference Workshop
Dedicated workshop for the Young Scientists of the SSB+RM as a pre-meeting event. Daniel Seiler will lead this workshop entitled “Patient-specific implants produced by additive manufacturing” including hands-on practice and a tour through the implant manufacturing labs.

12:00

Registration & poster installation

13:00

Welcome from SSB+RM

13:15

Welcome from HLS-director Prof. Dr. F. Schlottig

13:30

Session I: Biodegradable Metals
Chairperson: M. de Wild, F. Dalcanale

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Dr. Regine Willumeit-Römer
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany)
The interplay between biodegradable Mg implants and cells and tissues

14:00

H. Hornberger: Galvanic corrosion of magnesium materials

14:15

T. Imwinkelried: Fixation of a mandible osteotomy with magnesium implants: Does transferability to humans depend on the miniature pig breed?

14:30

Rapid fire posters and industry presentations

15:15

Coffee, Poster session I

16:00

Session II: Clinical Challenges
Chairperson: M. Morgenstern, S. Rotman

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Leonard Charles Marais
(Orthopedic Surgery, University Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
Reconstruction of bone defect

16:30

L. Kind: Synthetic composite matrix for dental bone regeneration

16:45

L. Power: Raman spectroscopy-based quality controls for tissue engineered cartilage

17:00

A.G. Guex: Biodegradable, cytocompatible, antibacterial: Electrospun wound dressings of Ga-PPIX-functionalised P4HB

17:15

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin A. McNally
(University of Oxford, UK, President of the European Bone and Joint Infection Society)
Biodegradable antibiotic carriers in prevention and treatment of bone and joint infections

17:45

Closing remarks

18:00

Transfer by public transport

19:15

Welcome drink & conference dinner at restaurant WERK 8

Time

Thursday, May 23th

08:00

Registration

08:30

Session III: Tissue Engineering & Engraftment
Chairperson: A. Scherberich, E. Kurisinkal

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joëlle Amédée-Vilamitjana
(Université de Bordeaux, France)
Vascularisation and innervation in regenerative medicine

09:00

L. Gili Sole: Human cell-based engineered tissues induce angiogenesis in healthy rat hearts

09:15

G. Born: Engineering clinical-grade β-cell tissues for diabetes treatment

09:30

Q. Vallmajo-Martin: Stiff synthetic modular hydrogels foster functional expansion of  human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

09:45

Coffee, Poster Session II

10:30

Session IV: Biofabrication
Chairperson: M. Zenobi-Wong, L. Power

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Maurizio Gullo
(FHNW, Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics IM2, Muttenz, Switzerland)
Challenges in 3D biofabrication – From organs on chip towards organ replacement

11:00

T. Serra: Spatially orchestrated micro-vessels networks via acoustic waves cell patterning

11:15

I. Berg: Enzymatically cross-linked cationic arginine-chitosan hydrogels for cartilage tissue engineering

11:30

P. Fisch: Bioprinting of osteochondral grafts

11:45

General assembly of the SSB+RM

12:30

Poster session III and standing lunch

13:45

Session V: Bone Substitutes
Chairperson: M. D’Este, Q. Vallmajó

Y. Maazouz: The effect of confinement of β-tricalcium phosphate granules immersed in SBF

14:00 B. Le Gars Santoni: Osteoclastic resorption of pure beta-tricalcium phosphate dense ceramics
14:15

L. Berger: Magnesium-based bone scaffolds fabricated by laser powder bed fusion: Microstructure analysis and surface coatings for degradation protection

14:30

Research Award

15:00

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Thomas Hefti and Mrs. Philine Baumann-Zumstein
(Biotronik AG, Vascular Interventions, Bülach, Switzerland)
Resorbable magnesium scaffolds for coronary vascular intervention; From bench to clinics

15:30

Presentation of oral and poster awards

16:00

Concluding remarks

16:15

End of the meeting