Symposia--The 9th World Biomaterials Congress will be held in Chengdu, China

National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials
Sichuan University
29 Wangjiang Road
Chengdu, China, 610064

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At a glance

1 .Advanced designer peptides
2 .Biofabrication
2.1. Biomaterials for biofabrication
2.2. Printing of biomaterials and biological species
3 .Bioinorganics and Bioceramics
3.1. Bioinorganics and biomaterials
3.2. Advanced Bioceramics: Substituted Apatite and Tricalcium Phosphate
4 .Bio-inspired adhesion for smart biomaterials
5 .Bioinspired intelligent biomaterials
5.1. Bioinspired intelligent biomaterials- structural design and fabrication
5.2. Bioinspired intelligent biomaterials- biological effect and biomedical application
6 .Biomaterials & mechanobiology for complex tissues
7 .Biomaterials and tissue engineering approaches for cancer research
8 .Biomaterials for nerve regeneration
9 .Cardiovascular tissue engineering
9.1. Cardiovascular tissue engineering
9.2. Frontier of biomaterials application in cardiovascular disease treatment
9.3. Novel functional stents
10 .Cells-materials interaction
10.1. Biomaterials for stem cell control
10.2. Cell-cell communication and cell-biomaterial interactions
10.3. Directing cell-material interactions with patterned surfaces
11 .Chemistry and biological relevance in hydroxyapatite and its precursors: from chemistry to biomaterial application
12 .Degradable biomaterials
12.1. Biodegradable metals
12.2. Degradable biopolymers
13 .Wound healing
13.1. Delivery approaches in skin therapy
13.2. Biomimetic approaches for biomaterials surface functionalization
14 .Dendrimeric systems for aided tissue regeneration
15 .Elastic biomaterials
16 .Gene delivery
16.1. Advancement in biomaterials for gene delivery
16.2. New concepts in polymer gene/drug/RNAi delivery systems
16.3. Nonviral gene delivery vectors: challenges and future perspectives
16.4. Recent advances in gene delivery systems
17 .Growth factors delivery
17.1. Growth factors delivery systems for regenerative medicine
17.2. Inorganic materials for long-term controlled release of growth factors and other large biological molecules
18 .High throughput evaluation of biointerfacial interactions
19 .Hybrid materials
19.1. Hybrid biomaterials and drug delivery systems
19.2. Hybrid materials
19.3. Novel biomaterial design inspired by inorganic-organic hybrids
20 . Hydrogels
20.1. Leverage of hydrogels for cell encapsulation in tissue engineering applications
20.2. Polymeric hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue engineering
20.3. Stimuli-sensitive polymers and gels
21 .Layer-by-layer built biomaterials: 1-, 2- and 3D nanoassembly
22 . Liposome and lipidic nanoparticles for drug delivery: old wine in a new bottle?
23 . Molecular Biocompatibility of Biomaterials
24 .Molecular imaging
24.1. Molecular imaging probes: design and applications
24.2. Magnetic nanomaterials in biomedicine and imaging
24.3. Recent advances in theranostic macromolecules
25 .Nano-biointerfaces and extracellular microenvironments
26 .Nanomaterials
26.1. Inorganic nanomaterials for drug delivery
26.2. Nanoengineered biomaterials for guided tissue regeneration
26.3. Nanomaterials – biointeractive nature with virus, bacteria, cells and tissue
26.4. Nanocomposites: special emphasis in orthopedics
27 .Nanostructured porous silicon as a biomaterial
28 .Dental materials
28.1. New approaches to dental material
28.2. Bone regeneration in dental and maxillofacial region
29 .Novel strategies for intervertebral disc regeneration
30 .Ophthalmic biomaterials
30.1. Cornea tissue engineering
30.2. Ophthalmic biomaterials
31 .Orthopaedic bone cements for bone repair and regeneration
32 .Patterned biomaterials and microdevices for biomedical applications
33 .Preparation and biomedical applications of bioactive polymer materials
34 .Polymer-based tissue adhesion and anti-adhesion
35 .Proteins at biomaterial interfaces
36 .See 24.3
37 .Scaffolds
37.1. Biomimetic biomaterials for regenerative medicine
37.2. Biomimetic nanofibers and regenerative medicine
37.3. Design of recombinant protein scaffolds for tissue engineering
37.4. Functional cell scaffolds combined with protein and gene
37.5. Hierarchical Three-dimensional Structures for Tissue Regeneration
37.6. Hybrid based scaffolds for tissue engineering
37.7. Metallic materials for scaffolds
37.8. Mesoporous to microporous biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications
37.9. Unique biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
38 .Shape memory biomaterials
39 .Skin tissue engineering
39.1. Skin tissue engineering
39.2. Tissue engineering applications in wound healing: challenges and future perspectives
40 .Smart biomimetic materials for cell therapies
41 .Surface modification
41.1. Novel surface modifications of biomaterials for improved biocompatibility
41.2. Surface initiated polymerization for bioactive surfaces
42 .Surface/interfaces
42.1. Biointerface – where biology meets material
42.2. Interactive biomaterials: focus on the interplay between material and biological system
42.3. Interface design on polymeric biomaterials
42.4. The Roles of water molecules in the biointerface - clarification of biocompatibility mechanisms
43 .Tendon and ligament engineering
44 .Tissue engineering for osteoradionecrosis
45 .Tissue inducing biomaterials
45.1. Biomaterial approaches to induce zonal cartilage organization
45.2. Cell-instructive materials to control stem cell fate in regenerative medicine
45.3. Instructive biomaterials
45.4. Recent advances in tissue inducing biomaterials- regulation of cellular gene expression via biomaterials
45.5. Recent advances in tissue inducing biomaterials- hard tissue induction
46 .Translating emerging biomaterials to clinical applications
47 .Tribology
47.1. Balancing of wear resistance and fracture toughness in crosslinked UHMWPE as orthopedic bearing surfaces
47.2. Smart PEEK biomaterials: engineering tribological surfaces and bioactive composites
48 .Bone Tissue Engineering: from Biomaterials to Microsurgeries and Vascularisations

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