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Plenary Lectures (30 min.) Plenary Lecture I Thursday 30th August, Room A, 10.15-12.45 Chairmens: Luigi Ambrosio (Italy), Iulian Antoniac (Romania), Heimo Ylanen (Finland), Petru Bordei (Romania) 10.15-10.45 Luigi Ambrosio (Institute for Composite and Biomedical Materials Naples, Italy) Repair and Regeneration Approach to Intervertebral Disc Surgical Problems 10.45-11.15 Charles James Kirkpatrick (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany) Cell-biomaterial interactions: in vitro models of the regenerative niche 11.15-11.45 Alexandru Vlad Ciurea (Carol Davila University School of Medicine, The National Center for Excellency in Neurosurgery; Bagdasar-Arseni Emergency Teaching Hospital, Bucharest ) Controversies in the use of biomaterials for the management of intracranial aneurysms. Clips vs. Coils 11.45-12.15 Matteo Santin (School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, UK) Biocompetent Nanostructured Biomaterials for Tissue Theranostics 12.15-12.45 Ioan Ştefan Florian (Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy“Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj-Napoca, Romania) Cranioplasty: Past and Present Plenary Lecture II Friday 31th August, Room A, 10.15-12.45 Chairmens: C. James Kirkpatrick (Germany), Teodor Traistaru (Romania), Jose Miguel Martin-Martinez (Spain), Catalin Cirstoiu (Romania) 10.15-10.45 Jose Miguel Martín-Martínez (University of Alicante, Spain) Synthesis and characterization of polyurethane sealants containing rosin in the chain extender intended for disc regeneration 10.45-11.15 Kunio Ishikawa (Kyushu University, Department of Biomaterials, Japan) Carbonate Apatite Foam Bone Replacement 11.15-11.45 Heimo O.Ylänen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland ) A New Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology 11.45-12.15 Alvaro Mata (The Nanotechnology Platform, Parc Científic Barcelona, Spain) Integrating top-down and bottom-up strategies for hierarchical control of scaffold biomaterials 12.15-12.45 Irena Gotman (Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) Load-bearing 'trabecular nitinol' bone scaffolds: in vitro and in vivo studies |