Arrival and check-in

Lunch buffet

Session 1: Challenges in regenerating soft to hard tissue interfaces

Keynote lecture by Prof. Georg Duda (Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health)) - “Employ Immuno-mechanics to Induce Tissue Regeneration”

Miguel Castilho (TU/e) - "Guiding mineralized tissue regeneration with engineered (fiber) scaffolds"

Francesca Giacomini (MERLN) - "Enthesis inflammation on-a-chip"

Coffee break + poster session by Young talent

Pitches by selected poster presenters

Continuation Session 1: Challenges in regenerating soft to hard tissue interfaces

Marloes van Mourik (TU/e) - “Regeneration of the cartilage microenvironment in micro-scale agarose hydrogels”

Break + drinks, check-in hotel

Dinner + social program

Breakfast buffet and check-out

Session 2: Materials, cells and organoids

Laura Rijns (TU/e) - “Engineered supramolecular hydrogels as mimics of the extracellular matrix:
on the interplay between mechanics, dynamics and bioactivity”

Hamid Jafarinia (MERLN) - “Stochastic spatial model for adhesion-based YAP/TAZ phosphorylation”

Aref Saberi (TU/e) - "A matrix based approach to develop human cerebral tissues to study brain development and neuropathology"

Joost Wijnakker (Hubrecht Insitute) - "Agonistic Integrin ß1 antibodies enhance organoid cultures by potentiating their susceptibility for ECM"

Coffee break

Session 3: Understanding material-driven regeneration in-vitro and in-silico

Anne-Floor de Kanter (UMCU) - "Identifying morally significant differences and preventing bias in regenerative implant design" 

Aygul Zengin (MERLN) - "There is still plenty of room at the bottom: Mesoporous silica nanocomposites for regenerative medicine applications"

Lunch buffet

Continuation session 3: Understanding material-driven regeneration in-vitro and in-silico

Keynote lecture by Prof. Anna Akhmanova (Utrecht University) - “Seeing proteins and drugs in action”

 Valentine Vetter (TU/e) - "Early host response to in situ tissue engineered heart valves"

Bas van Balkom (UMCU) - "A human kidney and liver organoid-based multi-organ-on-a-chip model to study the therapeutic effects and biodistribution of mesenchymal stromal cell-derived extracellular vesicles"

Closing remarks

Coffee break + start PI meeting

End