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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.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
- Schütz, C. A.; Juillerat-Jeanneret, L.; Halamoda-Kenzaoui, B.; Wandrey,C.: In Vitro Toxicological Evaluation of Chitosan-based Nanogel Delivery Systems.
- Talvitie, E.; Paavilainen, K.; Leppiniemi, J.; Mikhailov, A.; Hytönen V.; Kellomäki, M.: Preparation and Characterisation of Targeted Chitosan-Plasmid DNA Nanoparticles.
- Laird, D.; Mucalo, M.R.; Dias, G.: The development of novel bone replacement materials through infiltration of chitosan or polycaprolactone into sintered (collagen-free) cancellous bovine bone.
Polymers - New Materials:
- Antunes, J.; Pereira, A.C.; Ferreira da Silva, F.; Gonçalves, R.; Barbosa, M.A.: Development of Chitosan/-Polyglutamic Acid Polyelectrolyte Complexes for Tissue Regeneration.
Hydrogels
- Ji, C.; Zhong, X.; Khademhosseini, A.; Dehghani, F.: Fabrication of Porous Chitosan Hydrogel Using Dense Gas CO2.
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:
- Liverani, L.; Di Martino, A.; Rainer, A.; Abbruzzese, F.; Denaro, V.; Trombetta, M.: Characterization and Optimization of Chitosan Crosslinked Electrospun Nanofibers.
Biological Materials
- Mbundi, Lubinda; Meikle, Steven T.; Olivier, George J.W.; Santin, Matteo: Production of Submicron Chitosan beads as Target-Specific Carriers of Bioactive Molecules and Contrast Agents.
Biomimicing
- Sánchez-Torres, C. G.; Cortés-Hernández, D. A.; Escobedo-Bocardo, J. C.; Almanza-Robles, J. M.: Bioactivation of ferrite chitosan-coated particles for hyperthermia treatment.
- Jatariu, A.N.; Popa, M.; Indrei, A.; Peptu, C.A.: Ionic and Covalent Crosslinked Microparticles Based on Chitosan and Gelatin.
- Kucharska, Martyna; Walenko, Katarzyna; Ciach; Tomasz: Chitosan Microspheres Agglomeration as a potential Method for Bone Tissue Scaffold Fabrication.
Surface Modifications
- Ellahi Manesh, P.; Haghjoo, R.; Karkhaneh, A.; Daliri Joupari, M.: Gelatin Immobilization onto Chitosan-Alginate Substrate as a Natural Double-Layer Composite Scaffold.
The next year’s ESB will be held in Dublin, Ireland from September 4-8, 2011.
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