Workshop DISC REGENERATION
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Thursday 30th August, Meeting Room Hotel MALIBU, 16.00-19.00 A very interesting workshop entitled “From Interdisciplinary Research Projects to Surgical Solution for Repair and Regeneration of the Degenerated Intrevertebral Disc” will be organized in the frame of the EC project DISC REGENERATION - Novel Biofunctional Highly Porous Polymer Scaffolds and Techniques Controlling Angiogenesis for the Regeneration and Repair of the Degenerated Intervertebral Disc (Grant No. NMP3- LA-2008-213904). Causes of lower back pain are multi-factorial, but in the majority of cases it is linked to clinical evidence of IVD degeneration. As a consequence, curing disc degeneration is one of the most important socio-economic imperatives facing modern health care. DISC REGENERATION project aims to solve patients’ morbidity caused by intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration, based on the concept of producing a TE construct, implanted using minimally invasive surgery (e.g., percutaneous) to induce histologically differentiated in situ regeneration of the main IVD compartments. Design of materials and biological cues will be tuned to the specific regions of the disc substitute structure to control angiogenesis. The aims of the workshop are to present the latest results obtained by the biomaterials and tissue engineering experts in the frame of European research project DISC REGENERATION and find relevant opinions and suggestions from the best romanian surgeons involved in the clinical practice from the field of neurosurgery and orthopaedics about the clinical conditions associated to IVD that can be treated with a regenerative medicine approach rather than medical devices. Also, will be discussed some aspects regarding the potential improuvements of the surgical protocol using a minimally invasive methods and about the level of investment in technologies suitable to solve this clinical problem who is very common in the entire world. |