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Thanks for Participating the Summer School 2011
6th Winter School,
January 26-29, 2011
Semmering, Austria
The Working Group for Education held its 6th Winter School in Semmering,
Austria, in cooperation with the American Society for Artificial Internal
Organs. The winter school was supported by the FP7 Marie Curie Industry-Academia
Partnerships and pathways MONACO-EXTRA Project, enabling travel grants for
both students and lecturers.
The program was organized by the Scientific Committee, Dieter Falkenhagen
(Krems), Edward F. Leonard (New York), Sergey Mikhalovsky (Brighton),
Hans Jörg Meisel (Halle/Saale), Heinrich Schima (Vienna), Beat H.
Walpoth (Geneva) and Viktoria Weber (Krems). In total, 23 high-level
presentations by international speakers from 12 countries covered the
topics:
• Blood and tissue compatibility
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Enhancing active characteristics of biomaterials, especially of membranes,
adsorbents and scaffolds
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Interaction of biomaterials and cells: avoiding conflicts, increasing synergies
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New roles and functions for biomaterials
In addition, 51 posters were presented in two poster sessions and 3 poster
prizes were awarded to:
Lauran Madden, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Marlon Tijink, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Lutfiye Tutkun, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Over 120 participants from 19 countries (Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, France,
Germany, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, U.K. and USA) enjoyed the scientific
program, the various opportunities for networking, as well as the relaxed
atmosphere on Semmering.
XXXVII Annual meeting - Skopje, R. Macedonia, Sept 8-11, 2010
PICTURE GALLERY OF THE XXXVII Annual meeting - Skopje, R. Macedonia, Sept 8-11, 2010
Winter School January 21-23 2010 Semmering/Austria
In 2010 the Working Group for Education organized its 5th Winter School in Semmering, Austria. After the organization of the Winter Schools in Kitzbühel (2006), Gstaad (2007), Cortina D’Ampezzo (2008), Kranjska Gora/Slovenia (2009) also in 2010 a very attractive place could be found in Semmering/Austria the hotel Artis.
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The program was organized by the Scientific Committee composed of Dieter Falkenhagen, Edward Leonard, Heinrich Schima, and Jörg Vienken Beat Walpoth. 18 Presentations of high level by international speakers from 6 countries covered the topics: organ replacement technologies, research in biomaterials, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and cell therapy. Ca. 55 participants from 15 countries joined the Winter School and could enjoy the very personal atmosphere of the meeting.
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Participants of the ESAO/ASAIO Winter School 2010 in Semmering
Two Presidents-elect have met at the Annual ESAO Conference in Bologna in
2006.
Prof. Michael Lysaght (right), president elect of the International Federation
of Artificial Organs (IFAO) and Prof. Bart Meyns, at that time President-elect
of ESAO.
Michael Lysaght, who spent much of his professional life investigating
creative applications of biomaterials for artificial organs and held 26 patents
in this field, succumbed to metastatic bladder cancer on October 24, 2009.
ESAO commemorates with sadness the loss of this gifted engineer, teacher
and great personality.
H.Schima receives the first ASAIO-Kolff-Olsen-Award from Prof. Olsen
The Board Meeting of the IFAO was held during the ASAIO-IFAO meeting in Dallas,
May 2009. Birgit Glasmacher and Rui Reis were elected Board Members from ESAO
for 2010-2015. Joerg Vienken was nominated by ESAO for Chairman for 2010-2011.
from left to right:R. Reis, S. Ash, P. Wagner, B. Glasmacher, H. Schima,
A. Leirner, Y. Taenaka, J. Vienken, S. Reichenbacher
The 1st Annual Willem J Kolff- Don B Olsen Award was presented to Heinrich Schima, ESAO president elect, by Don Olsen at the ASAIO-IFAO 2009 meeting in Dallas.
Speakers of the ESAO-symposium at the ASAIO-IFAO meeting in Dallas 2009
Our president Bart Meyns took leave of our Chairman for the Corporate Members - Ingrid Ledebo - at the Board Meeting in Compi ègne, September 2009.
Speakers from the ESAO-symposium at the ESB meeting in Lausanne 2009 with the Poster Award Winner Sarra de Valence from the lab of our past president B. Walpoth.
European
Society for Artificial Organs:
Annual Meeting, 3-6 September 2008, Centre Medical Universitaire, Geneva,
Switzerland
54th Annual Conference of the American Society for Artificial Internal
Organs in San Francisco, USA (June 19-21, 2008):
" From discovery to Clinical Use and Commercialization "
Speakers of the ESAO-symposium at the World Biomaterials Congress 2008 in Amsterdam.
ESAO Winter School 6 - 8 March 2008 Cortina D’Ampezzo, Belluno - Italy
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences
and Arts (Sept. 28, 2007), Skopje, R. Macedonia
ESAO in Macedonia 2007
ESAO in Macedonia 2007
XXXIV Congress of ESAO 2007, Krems, Austria (Sep 5-8, 2007)
go to some picture impressions from the meeting
Report of Congress here or as as PDF
3rd World Congress of Regenerative Medicine in Leipzig, Germany (Oct 18-20, 2007)
ESAO Symposium speakers in Leipzig
IFAO-JSAO Annual Meeting in Osaka, Japan (Jun 28-31, 2007)
IFAO-JSAO Annual Meeting in Osaka