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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.

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.

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