Biomaterials Research Centre Nov 10, 2015 Biomaterials Research Centre’s Annual Day 2015 "Tissue Engineering" Presentation of speakers Suchitra Sumitran- Dr. Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson earned her Doctor of Medical Sciences degree Holgersson MSC, PhD in Clinical Immunology at the Karolinska Institutet in 1991, and became an associate Prof. of Transplantation Professor in 2000. In 2008, she joined the Sahlgrenska hospital at the Gothenburg Biology Laboratory for University as the Professor of Transplantation Biology. Her research interests include Transplantation and understanding mechanisms of allograft rejections, stem cell engraftment and tissue- Regenerative Medicine engineering of organs with stem cells. She has contributed to more than 80 articles in Sahlgrenska Science Park, peer-reviewed journals and 15 book chapters and has seven scientific patents to her Göteborg credit. Raimund Strehl, PhD, Chief Technology Officer for NovaHep, holds a degree in cell biology from the University of Regensburg, Germany. He has an academic Raimund Strehl background within cell culture development and tissue engineering as well as an PhD, CTO, NovaHep industrial background in the field of human pluripotent stem cell development and AB, Gothenburg, application. Raimund has worked over ten years at Cellartis, heading product Sweden. development and manufacturing in the role of Chief Technology Officer, responsible for collaborations with major pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Dr. de Peppo received a BSc Degree in Biotechnology at La Sapienza University in Rome and a MSc degree in Medical Biotechnology at Bicocca University in Milan, with a thesis in biomaterial engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Following an Giuseppe Maria de advanced course in Bioinformatics in Valencia, in 2007, he was awarded a Marie Peppo , BSc, MSc, PhD Curie fellowship at the Department of Biomaterials at the University of Gothenburg Principal Investigator in Sweden, where he received an international PhD in Tissue Engineering. In 2013 he The New York Stem Cell was honored the Best Prize for his doctoral studies and the Argos Hippium Award for Foundation his professional achievements abroad. After completing his PhD, Dr. de Peppo was Research Institute awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research www.nyscf.org Institute, where is now leading the Bone Engineering and Regeneration group. His major research goal is to engineer patient-specific vascularized bone grafts for large and complex skeletal reconstructions using an osteoinductive scaffold – perfusion bioreactor model of bone development. Other research directions include manufacturing of biomaterial scaffolds, testing of implantable biomaterials using tissue-engineered products, and stem cell therapy using pluripotent stem cells. Aleksandar holds a Senior Research Position from the Swedish Research council Alexandar Matic directed towards Soft Matter Physics and is also director for Chalmers Area of Prof. and Director Advance Materials Science. Chalmers Area of The research spans from fundamental investigations of glass formation, gelation Advance Materials and colloidal aggregation to applied projects on new electrolytes for Li-batteries Science, Chalmers and fuel cells. University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Biomaterials Research Centre Nov 10, 2015 Biomaterials Research Centre’s Annual Day 2015 "Tissue Engineering" Presentation of speakers Abdelouahab El Ghalbzouri (1973) studied Biotechnology and Biochemistry (BSc, 1994-1997) in Etten-Leur, the Netherlands and Molecular and Cellular Biology (MSc, 1998) at the Medical University Paris VI in Paris (France). In Abdelouahab El 1999, he started his PhD at the Department of Dermatology of the Leiden Ghalbzouri, University Medical Center (LUMC). During his PhD, he optimized the generation of reconstructed human skin models and extensively studied their use for tissue PhD, Ass. Prof. LUMC skin research lab, engineering, research, and clinical purposes. Abdoel continued his work on human skin models as a post-doc (2004-2006) and became senior scientist Leiden, The Netherlands. (universitair docent, UD) at the Department of Dermatology (LUMC). Currently, he is leading the research group ‘disease skin models’, in which various skin diseases (e.g. eczema, squamous cell carcinoma) and skin conditions (e.g. wound healing, skin aging) are mimicked in vitro to better understand the physiopathology of the skin. In 2008, this research group was awarded the ‘Alternative to animal testing award’ from the Dutch Society for Animal Protection and the Netherlands Centre for Alternatives to Animal Use. In 2009, the group received the ‘Pearl project award’ for mimicking skin cancer in vitro from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw). In 2010 he participated in the NGI venture challenge where he presented his spin-off company Biomimiq. Biomimiq offers services with its unique and customizable in vitro human skin models representing both healthy and diseased human skin, ascertaining the company as one of the leaders in a large and rapidly growing market. In January 2013, Biomimiq was incorporated as a separate unit within the Tissue Engineering company Aeon Astron Europe B.V. (Leiden, The Netherlands), where it continued its services on skin models. As founder, he has a scientific advisory role within Biomimiq-AAE Dr Kristina Fant is a research scientist at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden since 2011. She has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Chalmers Kristina Fant University of Technology. Her area of expertise is in vitro safety testing and the Research scientist, development of alternative test methods, i.e. methods not involving animal SP Technical experiments. She is developing and implementing test methods to be run in Research Institute compliance with Good Laboratory Practice principles. The SP cell culture of Sweden, Borås, facilities are currently the only Swedish lab to offer GLP approved safety testing Sweden to external customers, and Sweden’s representative in the EU -NETVAL network of qualified laboratories that can participate in method validation. Anna Finne Wistrand has a background in polymer synthesis. Her research interests focus today on tissue engineering and the translational, interdisciplinary field of material science and biology. This is an area which requires an enhanced understanding of polymer synthesis, physico-chemical characteristics, characterization and structure-property relationships at both molecular and Anna Finne Wistrand nanoscale level. A general aim for the research is to design and fabricate complex Ass.Prof. Dep.of Fibre and three-dimensional constructs that attract multiple cell types in a predetermined Polymer Technology, manner and permit development of extracellular matrices in a well defined way. School of Chemical Anna Finne Wistrand finished her PhD 2003 at KTH Royal Institute of Science and Engineering, Technology, Fibre and polymer Technology. She has after that spent some time as KTH Royal Institute of visiting scientist in the group of (1) Prof. Virgil Percec, Department of Chemistry, Technology, Sweden University of Pennsylvania (2) Prof. Y. Ito, Nanomedical Engineering, RIKEN. In addition, she has had positions at Akzo Nobel (Casco Adhesive), PP Polymer and she is right now active at Novus Scientific.
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