Wednesday, 8th of May 2019, 9h00 to 18h00
Centro Cultural Vila Flôr, Guimarães, Portugal
We would like to invite you to attend the Workshop “Translational science in musculoskeletal disorders”, which will take place on the 8th of May 2019 at the Centro Cultural Vila Flôr, Guimarães, Portugal (Map). The event is being organized as part of The Discoveries Centre of Excellence for Regenerative and Precision Medicine supported by the European Commission (https://thediscoveriesctr.eu/, H2020 grant agreement #739572) and the ERDF (Norte 2020, #NORTE-46-2015-16).
The event will give an overview of the current state of translational science in musculoskeletal disorders. The programme will combine presentations from researchers with medical or engineering backgrounds including examples of multidisciplinary approaches to address unmet clinical needs.
Programme outline:
- 09h00 – Registration
- 09h45 – Opening Ceremony
- 10h00 - Chemistry-free micro‑uidic technologies to sort cells for health and disease
- Prof. Utkan Demirci, Stanford University, USA
- 11h00 – Coffee-break
- 11h30 - “Can you grow back an amputated hand?: on the role of robots in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders”
Prof. Rui Loureiro, UCL, UK - 12h30 – Lunch
- 14h30 - Tissue Engineered Biphasic Silk Fibroin Scaolds Improve Enthesis Healing
Prof. Martijn van Griensven, Technical University of Munich, Germany - 15h30 – Biomaterials and personalised implants for tissue regeneration: What has been achieved and what’s next?
Dr. Miguel Oliveira, 3B’s Research Group, I3Bs, University of Minho, Portugal - 16h30 – Coffee-break
- 17h00 - What makes a great paper for Nature Biomedical Engineering?
Dr. Michelle Korda, Nature Publishing Group, UK - 18h00 – Closing Ceremony
Registration to the event is available here
Best regards,
Prof. Rui L. Reis
Professor of Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cells
I3Bs – Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics of the University of Minho
Director of the 3B’s Research Group
Coordinator of the European project THE DISCOVERIES CTR – The Discoveries Centre for Regenerative and Precision Medicine (H2020 #739572)