Conferințe

Conferințe (30 min.)
Plenary Lecture I
Thursday 30th August, Room A, 10.15-12.45


Chairmens:
Luigi Ambrosio (Italy), Iulian Antoniac (Romania), Heimo Ylanen (Finland), Petru Bordei (Romania)

10.15-10.45 Luigi Ambrosio
(Institute for Composite and Biomedical Materials Naples, Italy)
Repair and Regeneration Approach to Intervertebral Disc Surgical Problems

10.45-11.15 Charles James Kirkpatrick
(Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Cell-biomaterial interactions: in vitro models of the regenerative niche

11.15-11.45 Alexandru Vlad Ciurea
(Carol Davila University School of Medicine, The National Center for Excellency in Neurosurgery; Bagdasar-Arseni Emergency Teaching Hospital, Bucharest )
Controversies in the use of biomaterials for the management of intracranial aneurysms. Clips vs. Coils

11.45-12.15 Matteo Santin
(School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, UK)
Biocompetent Nanostructured Biomaterials for Tissue Theranostics

12.15-12.45 Ioan Ştefan Florian
(Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy“Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Cranioplasty: Past and Present


Plenary Lecture II
Friday 31th August, Room A, 10.15-12.45


Chairmens:
C. James Kirkpatrick (Germany), Teodor Traistaru (Romania), Jose Miguel Martin-Martinez (Spain), Catalin Cirstoiu (Romania)


10.15-10.45 Jose Miguel Martín-Martínez
(University of Alicante, Spain)
Synthesis and characterization of polyurethane sealants containing rosin in the chain extender intended for disc regeneration

10.45-11.15 Kunio Ishikawa
(Kyushu University, Department of Biomaterials, Japan)
Carbonate Apatite Foam Bone Replacement

11.15-11.45 Heimo O.Ylänen
(Tampere University of Technology, Finland )
A New Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology

11.45-12.15 Alvaro Mata
(The Nanotechnology Platform, Parc Científic Barcelona, Spain)
Integrating top-down and bottom-up strategies for hierarchical control of scaffold biomaterials

12.15-12.45 Irena Gotman
(Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
Load-bearing 'trabecular nitinol' bone scaffolds: in vitro and in vivo studies