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Please pay registation fee before 27th of August 2008! Certificates of payment will be sent by email and regular mail. For payments from Slovenia use: Account: NIB 01100-6030344630 sklic: 08INSUMM For payments from foreign (non-Slovenia) use international account: Bank of Slovenia, Slovenska 35, 1000 Ljubljana IBAN : SI56011006030344630 SWIFT :BSLJSI2X Reference: 08INSUMM Beneficiary: National Institute of Biology NIB Večna pot 111, 1000 Ljubljana www.nib.si prof. dr. Tamara Lah Turnšek, director +386 (0)1 4233 388 +386 (0)1 2412 980 The handouts are available for download here. To unzip the package and view the texts you will require a password. If you have paid your registration fee, you will recieve this password by email or regular mail. Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Serbia National Institute of Biology, Slovenia Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society On September 14 - 21, 2008 Accommodation for students at Marine Biology Station Piran. Accommodation for professors at Hotel Tartini. The Summer School is organized as a PhD level course intended for graduate students in engineering and life sciences, with the focus on advanced approaches to the treatment of osteochondral defects. The aim is to introduce the students to different aspects of developing new strategies for clinical applications, starting with the clinical problem and laboratory scale systems, and ending with engineering, ethical and legislative issues in translation to clinics. The course will begin with the physiology of cartilage and bone, and the clinical problem of injury of these tissues. Next, the tissue engineering approaches to regeneration of injured tissues will be presented, with focus on the design and selection of appropriate biomaterials, and the design and operation of bioreactor systems. Finally, the methods for evaluation of engineered tissues will be reviewed followed by ethycal issues and legislation in clinical applications. The course will include lectures and laboratory demonstrations of synthesis and production of various biomaterials as well as set up and operation of several tissue engineering bioreactors. Physiology of cartilage and bone Clinical problem of cartilage and bone tissue injury Tissue engineering approaches to treat osteochondral defects Biomaterials for cell support for cartilage and bone regeneration: Hydrogels (main types, preparation methods, characterization methods, applications in tissue regeneration) Hydroxyapatites and composite biomaterials for bone tissue regeneration Smart biomaterials in regeneration of cartilage and bone (functionalized biomaterials, biomaterials with controlled delivery of regulatory molecules, composite biomaterials) Bioreactor systems for cartilage and bone tissue engineering Self-renewal methods for cartilage and bone tissue regeneration Characterization of engineered tissues (morphology, histology, immunology, biomechanical characterization) Ethical issues and legislation Andrea Barbero, Research Associate, University Hospital Basel Bianca Baroli, Assistant Professor, University of Cagliary Branko Bugarski, Professor, University of Belgrade Smadar Cohen, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Matej Drobnič, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana Djordje Janackovic, Associate Professor, University of Belgrade Charles Kessler, EU Commission, DG RTD, directorate Health, Brussels (contacted) Hana Krecic-Stres, Project Manager, Educell d.o.o. Nevenka Kregar Velikonja, Managing Director, Educell d.o.o. Darja Marlot, Postdoctoral Scholar, Columbia University Lorenz Meinel, ETH Zurich, Novartis Ulrich Noth, Head of the Division of Tissue Engineering, University of Wurzburg Bojana Obradovic, Associate Professor, University of Belgrade Michael Sittinger, Head of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering, Charite University Medicine Ralf R. Tönjes, Professor, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Professor, Columbia University Dieter Wirz, Senior Scientist, University-Hospital Basel Course notes available in August 2008. 2 hour written exam after the completion of the course. 35 hours, 4 ECTS credits The students who have completed the course and passed the exam will obtain a certificate for the PhD level course “Advanced Biomedical Technologies for Treatment of Osteochondral Defects” (4 credits) from the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. The School fee is 300 Eur, which will include attendance to the school lectures, exam, course notes, the book of abstracts as well as welcome cocktail and the farewell dinner. All students from Slovenia and Serbia are granted with the 60 % of the School fee by the Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia and the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade so that the school fee for them is 120 Eur. All members of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society are granted with 60 % of the School fee by the Society. Students of the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade are exempt of paying the School fee and will receive the book of abstracts and course material for free. For a limited number of the best graduate students who are granted stipends from the Ministry of Science, Republic of Serbia during the year 2008, there is a possibility for arrangement of free travel to Piran, accommodation and attendance to the School. Bojana Obradovic (University of Belgrade) Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (Columbia University) Miomir Knezevic (Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia) Tamara Lah (National Instittute of Biology, Slovenia) Miomir Knezevic (Chair, Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia) Bojana Obradovic (Co-Chair, University of Belgrade) Ivan Martin (University Hospital Basel, Switzerland) Nevenka Kregar (Educell, d.o.o., Slovenia) Branko Bugarski (University of Belgrade) Jure Sah (Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia)