Sessions
This page was updated on July 8th 2024.
ETRS-WHS-SkinTERM 2024 Sessions
Each session consists of one session talk by an invited speaker and a number of oral presentations selected from abstracts.
Oral presentations selected from abstracts will be announced in July 2024.
Charles Lapière Memorial Lecture
WED 25/09 | 18.00 – 19.00
Session Talk by Prof. Dr. Boris Hinz
St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto, CANADA
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Myofibroblasts*
(*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 1 | Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering & Novel Targets
WED 25/09 | 11.00 – 12.30
Session Talk by Prof. Dr. Patricia Dankers
Eindhoven University of Technology, THE NETHERLANDS
Tissue engineering through supramolecular biomaterial design
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 2 | Clinical Applications & Clinical Trials
WED 25/09 | 13.30 – 15.00
Session Talk by Prof. dr. Ewa Stürmer
University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, GERMANY
Clinical studies in wound care: clinicians’ needs and patients’ perspectives
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 3 | Wound Healing Society
WED 25/09 | 16.00 – 17.30
Session Talk by:
WHS president Dr. Sundeep Keswani
Texas Children’s Fetal Center, Division of Pedriatic Surgery, USA
Novel Roles for Lymphocytes in Achieving Regenerative Wound Repair
Abstracts to be determined
Dr. Subhadip Ghatak
Indiana University, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Decoding The Healing Dialogue: Keratinocyte-Macrophage Crosstalk in Inflammation Resolution and Functional Wound Closure
Abstracts to be determined
Dr. Alex Ortega Loayza
Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Title to be determined
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 4 | Skin Tissue Engineering
THU 26/09 | 08.30 – 10.00
Session Talk by Dr. Dongsheng Jiang
Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CHINA
Fibroblast heterogeneity determines skin regeneration or scarring
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 5 | AI & Bioinformatics approaches in Tissue Repair
THU 26/09 | 11.00 – 12.30
Session Talk by Prof. Dr. Kyle Quinn
University of Arkansas, Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center (AIMRC), USA
Deep learning neural networks for the automated image analysis of skin wounds
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 6 | Global Scar Society
THU 26/09 | 13.30 – 15.00
Session Talk by Prof. Dr. Esther Middelkoop
Alliance of Dutch Burn Centres, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
The role of skin regeneration in burns and scar treatment
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 7 | ETRS Young Investigator Award
THU 26/09 | 16.30 – 17.00
Session Talk by Dr. Alex Cheong
Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Microbial Metatranscriptomic Biomarkers of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Healing and Amputation
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 8 | Organ on a chip & Alternatives for in vivo experiments
FRI 27/09 | 08.30 – 10.00
Session Talk by Dr. Ana Carolina Figueira
LNBio – CNPEM, BRAZIL
Integrating Metabolic Pathways: Bridging Diabetes Research with Tissue Engineering and Organ-on-Chip Assays
Abstracts to be determined
SESSION 9 | Workshop: Getting Products in the EU Clinic
FRI 27/09 | 11.00 – 12.30
Workshop by:
Dr. Marcel Hoefnagel
Medicines Evaluation Board, CBG-MEB, THE NETHERLANDS
Regulatory considerations for the development of cell-based and tissue-engineered ATMPs
Dr. Claudia Doberenz
MedSkin Solutions Dr. Suwelack AG, GERMANY
Transferring science into products/development of medical devices
Dr. Vincent Ronfard
Cutiss AG, SWITZERLAND
Transferring development into the clinic
SESSION 10 | Emerging Science & Beyond Borders
FRI 27/09 | 13.30 – 15.00
Session Talk by Prof. Dr. Brian Eliceiri
University of California San Diego, USA
Mechanisms of exosome action for the rational design of pro-reparative therapeutics in tissue repair
Abstracts to be determined