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Madeira, Portugal, September 21-25, 2009

CS Madeira Atlantic Resort & Sea SPA 

Organization:

INEB – Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, University of Porto

and

CQM - Centro de Química da Madeira, University of Madeira

 

An initiative part of the Work Package 4 on Education, of the BRIDGE Project.

 

This Course is designed for PhD students that have enrolled in the Bridge Educational Programme.

The Course will consist in 5 full days at a single location, based on 2-3 lectures per day given by internationally reputed speakers on several topics of Biomaterials Science and Regenerative Medicine. Each lecture will provide background concepts, as well as advanced topics.

The activities in this Course are interconnected with previous activities of this Educational Programme. Bridge PhD students, organized in groups, will present a Business Plan drafted during the Winter Course (Budapest, February 2009), aimed at valuing the results of research in this scientific field. In addition, students will also be given the opportunity to present their work in a Poster Session and develop a Research Project during the week, in the format of a grant application, which will be discussed and commented by the lecturers.

Overall, the added value of this Course to PhD students relies on: 

  • High level and focused lecturers
  • Advanced training
  • Course design including poster presentations and research project
  • Continuation of Business Plan from Winter Course
  • Working in international teams for a single goal
  • Working innovatively under time pressure

 Topics 

  • Biomaterials
  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • Engineered artificial extracellular matrices
  • Infection and implanted devices
  • Drug and gene delivery
  • Hard tissue regeneration
  • Soft tissue regeneration
  • Organ building
  • Stem cells in tissue regeneration
  • Clinical studies
  • Translational research
  • Social impact of regenerative medicine

 Confirmed lectures 

  • The Origins and Evolution to the Present Day of the Controlled Delivery Field - A Hoffman (U Washington, US)
  • Biocompatibility in soft and hard tissue: Taking into account mechanotransduction - J Hilborn (Uppsala U, SE)
  • Engineered artificial extracellular matrices - M Lutolf (EPFL, CH)
  • Infection and implanted devices - R Kuijer and H van der Mei (U Groningen, NL)
  • Tissue regeneration via gene delivery - H Tomás (U. Madeira, PT)
  • Materials for augmentation and regeneration of hard tissue - H Engqvist (Uppsala U, SE)
  • Soft tissue regeneration – Speaker to be confirmed
  • Stem Cells: Potency and Control - P Di Nardo (U. Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
  • Building organs: an architectural challenge - TG van Kooten (U Groningen, NL)
  • Developing tissue engineering applications for clinical use - Z Lacza (Semmelweis U, HU)
  • Bench to Bedside and Beyond - The principles and processes involved in the structuring and governance of translational research (TR) pipelines - S Grange (U College London, UK)
  • Social impact of regenerative medicine - PL Granja (INEB, PT)