Speakers

· Tim Bertram, Senior Vice President, Tengion, Inc., USA

· Rena Bizios, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

· Jan de Boer, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

· Ranieri Cancedda, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

· Arnold I. Caplan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

· Fu-Zhai Cui, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

· Mary Dickinson, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

· Sandra Downes, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

· Wouter Feitz, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

· John P. Fisher, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

· Susan Gibbs, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

· Achim Goepferich, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

· Robert E. Guldberg, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

· Kiki B. Hellman, The Hellman Group, LLC, Clarksburg, Maryland, USA

· Karen Hirschi, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

· Steve Hodges, Wake Forest University, Winston- Salem , North Carolina

· Ernst B. Hunziker, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

· Dietmar Hutmacher, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

· John A. Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

· Khalid Lafdi, University of Dayton, USA

· Wei Liu, Shanghai 9th People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

· Claudio Migliaresi, University of Trento, Italy

· Gert Meijer, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The

· Antonios G. Mikos, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

· Robert Nerem, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

· Gerjo van Osch, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

· Patrea L. Pabst, Pabst Patent Group LLP

· Gadi Pelled, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

· Bruno Peault, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

· Kai Pinkernell, Cytori Therapeutics, San Diego, California

· Erhan Piskin, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

· Rui L. Reis, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

· Athanassios Sambanis, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

· Ralf Sanzenbacher, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany

· Steven Schwendeman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

· Molly S. Shoichet, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

· Gustav Steinhoff, University of Rostock Medical School, Rostock, Germany

· Yasuhiko Tabata, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

· Johnna S. Temenoff, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

· Fernando Ulloa, Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

· Clemens van Blitterswijk, University of Twente, The Netherlands

· Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

· Carsten Werner, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany

· Pamela Yelick, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA