6th Belgian Symposium on Tissue Engineering: ‘Next Generation Tissue Engineering’
The ultimate goal of tissue engineering is to replace diseased or lost organs by engineered functional organs. The last decades, significant advances have been made to reach this goal. Even more, since a few years tissue engineering has become a promising tool as in vitro models for drug screening and in disease modelling.
However, multiple challenges remain to be addressed to produce tissue engineered products. To overcome some of the hurdles, BSTE18 ‘next generation tissue engineering’ includes a plethorum of new approaches; among them are 3D bioprinting, smart biomaterials, self assembling cellular systems, in silico modelling,… These new technologies will lead to generating tissue engineered organs and controlling cell behavior.
The symposium will also include the launch of GATE (Gent Alliance for Tissue Engineering) and the VZW Belgian Society for Tissue Engineering.
- co-organized by CRIG member dr. Heidi Declercq, prof. Sandra Van Vlierberghe and prof. Peter Dubruel.
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- Venue: Oude Vismijn, Gent
- Invited speakers: prof. V. Mironov (Bioprinting of first functional and vascularized human organ), prof. A. Ovsianikov (Engineering 3D cell culture matrices by means of multiphoton processing).
- Local organizing committee: Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Group (dr. Heidi Declercq) and Polymer & Biomaterials Group (prof. Sandra Van Vlierberghe, prof. Peter Dubruel), in cooperation with Belgian universities.
- Abstract submission and registration deadlines: September 1st and October 1st 2018
