23rd European Conference on Biomaterials
From September 11 – 15, 2010 the 23rd European Conference on Biomaterials took place in Tampere, Finland. This year the annual conference of the European Society for Biomaterials was organised by the Finnish Society for Biomaterials.
This year’s European Conference on Biomaterials (ESB) was visited by over 800 scientists, physicians, producers and marketing specialists to present the results of their work, to develop new ideas and make new contacts.
A lot of participants are especially interested in the biopolymer chitosan. Findings about their chitosan research were presented during oral and poster presentations.
The results of the work with chitosan were presented in the following speeches:
| Drug and Gene Delivery |
| In Vitro Toxicological Evaluation of Chitosan-based Nanogel Delivery Systems: |
| Schütz, C. A.; Juillerat-Jeanneret, L.; Halamoda-Kenzaoui, B.; Wandrey,C. |
| Preparation and Characterisation of Targeted Chitosan-Plasmid DNA Nanoparticles: |
| Talvitie, E.; Paavilainen, K.; Leppiniemi, J.; Mikhailov, A.; Hytönen V.; Kellomäki, M. |
| The development of novel bone replacement materials through infiltration of chitosan or polycaprolactone into sintered (collagen-free) cancellous bovine bone: |
| Laird, D.; Mucalo, M.R.; Dias, G. |
| Polymers - New Materials |
| Development of Chitosan/-Polyglutamic Acid Polyelectrolyte Complexes for Tissue Regeneration: |
| Antunes, J.; Pereira, A.C.; Ferreira da Silva, F.; Gonçalves, R.; Barbosa, M.A. |
| Hydrogels |
| Fabrication of Porous Chitosan Hydrogel Using Dense Gas CO2: |
| Ji, C.; Zhong, X.; Khademhosseini, A.; Dehghani, F. |
The poster sessions were held on two days with a total of 329 exhibits on the following topics: Absorbable Biomaterials, Biological Materials, Biomimicing, Biosensing, Biostabile Materials, Cardio Vascular System, Cell Culturing Technologies, Clinical Tests/Studies, Dental, Drug Release Technologies, Musculoskeletal Applications, Nanotechnology and Surface Modifications.
Below you can find some of the posters:
| Absorbable Biomaterials |
| Characterization and Optimization of Chitosan Crosslinked Electrospun Nanofibers: |
| Liverani, L.; Di Martino, A.; Rainer, A.; Abbruzzese, F.; Denaro, V.; Trombetta, M. |
| Biological Materials |
| Production of Submicron Chitosan beads as Target-Specific Carriers of Bioactive Molecules and Contrast Agents: |
| Mbundi, Lubinda; Meikle, Steven T.; Olivier, George J.W.; Santin, Matteo |
| Biomimicing |
| Bioactivation of ferrite chitosan-coated particles for hyperthermia treatment: |
| Sánchez-Torres, C. G.; Cortés-Hernández, D. A.; Escobedo-Bocardo, J. C.; Almanza-Robles, J. M. |
| Drug Release Technologies |
| Ionic and Covalent Crosslinked Microparticles Based on Chitosan and Gelatin: |
| Jatariu, A.N.; Popa, M.; Indrei, A.; Peptu, C.A. |
| Musculoskeletal Applications |
| Chitosan Microspheres Agglomeration as a potential Method for Bone Tissue Scaffold Fabrication: |
| Kucharska, Martyna; Walenko, Katarzyna; Ciach; Tomasz |
| Surface Modifications |
| Gelatin Immobilization onto Chitosan-Alginate Substrate as a Natural Double-Layer Composite Scaffold: |
| Ellahi Manesh, P.; Haghjoo, R.; Karkhaneh, A.; Daliri Joupari, M. |
The next year’s ESB will be held in Dublin, Ireland from September 4-8, 2011.
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