PROGRAMME

INVITED / PLENARY SPEAKERS

Giovanni Camussi
Professor Emeritus, MD, University of Torino, Department of Medical Sciences, Former Director of the Department of Internal Medicine, Torino, Italy
Extracellular vesicles based therapeutics; Angiogenic properties of serum-derived extracellular vesicles: potential therapeutic applications

May Griffith
Professor, PhD, University of Montreal, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Canada Research Chair in Biomaterials and Stem Cells in Ophthalmology and the Caroline Durand Foundation Research Chair in Cellular Therapy of the Eye
Current developments in corneal regeneration

Lorenzo Moroni Professor, PhD, Maastricht University, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Department of Complex Tissue Regeneration, Maastricht, The Netherlands
4D printing or not 4D printing? Mechanically actuatable 3D instructive scaffolds to steer tissue regeneration

Vasıf Hasırcı
Professor, PhD, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Biomedical Engineering Department, ACU Biomaterials Center, and Graduate Dept. of Biomaterials, Istanbul, Turkey; BIOMATEN, METU, Ankara, Turkey
Towards translation with polymeric implants

Reha S. Kisnisci
Professor & Chair, Dt PhD, Lokman Hekim University,
Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Ankara, Turkey
Cleft lip/palate and regenerative medicine

Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez
Professor, PhD, University of Glasgow, Chair of Biomedical Engineering,
Co-director of the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment, Scotland, United Kingdom
Protein-based hydrogels for stem cell engineering

Ralph Sinkus
PhD, Research Director at CNRS, LVTS, U1148, INSERM, Paris, France. Professor & Chair in Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London,
Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, London, UK
Tissue biomechanics for the quantification of fibrosis, inflammation, and response to therapy

Stefano Ferrari
PhD, Head of the Research Centre of the Veneto Eye Bank Foundation, Venezia, Italy
Cell therapy-based approaches for the treatment of disorders of the cornea and the retina

Liesbet Geris Professor, PhD, Collen-Francqui Research Professor in Biomechanics and Computational Tissue Engineering at the university of Liège and KU Leuven, Belgium
Digital tools for designing living implants: examples from skeletal tissue engineering

Antoniac Iulian
Professor, PhD, Politechnical University of Bucharest, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Head of the Biomaterials Group, Bucharest, Romania President of the Romanian Society for Biomaterials
Advances in bioceramics and biocomposites

Zeynep Altintas
Professor, PhD, Technical University Berlin & Kiel University, Chair of Bioinspired Materials and Biosensor Technologies, Berlin, Germany
Biomedical applications of in silico designed functional materials