Short Course
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
New Concepts in Biocompatibility for Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine
Short Course Program Chairs: Julie Babensee, Georgia Tech and Bryan Brown, University of Pittsburgh (visiting professor).
Registration for the Short Course is complimentary for all Hilton Head Workshop attendees. Please indicate when completing registration.
Beyond Foreign Body Reaction
| 8:00am | Michael Sefton - University of Toronto Alternative Foreign Body Responses |
| 8:40am | Themis Kyriakides - Yale University Molecular Characterization of Tissue-Biomaterial Interactions |
| 9:20am | Jordan Pober - Yale University Engineering Microvessels from Differentiated Vascular Cells: Perfusion and Immunogenicity |
| 10:00am | Break |
Remodeling and Regeneration
| 10:30am | Michal Schwartz - Weizmann Institute of Science Infiltrating macrophages and the glial scar in a feed-back loop orchestrate Central Nervous system protection and the restoration |
| 11:10pm | Bryan Brown - McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (Visiting Professor) Macrophage polarization in scaffold based approaches to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | Thomas Barker - Georgia Tech Microenvironment molecular and physical determinants that direct epithelial cell phenotypic switching in organ development and complex tissue regeneration |
| 1:40pm | Tom Wynn - NIH Macrophage function in tissue repair versus fibrosis of the liver |
| 2:20pm | Break |
Immune Modulation
| 2:40pm | Julia Babensee - Georgia Tech Immunomodulatory biomaterials |
| 3:20pm | Steve Little - University of Pittsburgh Can Restoring Immunological Homeostasis in the Periodontium Lead to Regeneration? |
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4:00pm
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Round Table
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| 5:00pm | Keynote Speaker for Hilton Head Workshop - view program |
