1st and Establishing Meeting
5-6 May, 2008
Lyktan, Conference Centre Wallenberg,
Göteborgs Universitet
Monday 5 May
13.00 -13.20 Welcome: Håkan Engqvist/Pentti Tengvall/Julie Gold Scientific presentations
13.20 –13.40 Lars Magnus Bjursten, LU, “Past and present results in biomaterials research. Outlook”
13.40 -14.10 Tomas Albrektsson, GU "Biomaterial från experiment till klinisk verklighet"
14.10 -14.30 Coffee 14.30 -15.00 Jöns Hilborn, UU, “Tissue Engineering”
15.00 -15.30 Bo Nilsson, UU, “Surface – Blood interactions”
15.30 -16.00 Coffee
16.00 - ca 17.30 General assembly, establishment of Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials (SSB) and election of the first board.
18.00 - Dinner
Tuesday 6 May
cont. Scientific presentations
08.30 - 08.50 Pentti Tengvall, LiU, “Biomaterials research at LiTH”
08.50 - 09.20 Per Aspenberg, LiU, “Materials in Medicine”
09.20 - 09.50 Håkan Engqvist, UU, ”Injectable Materials”
09.50 - 10.10 Coffee
10.10 - 10.40 Peter Thomsen, GU, “Institute of Biomaterials and Cell Therapy.”
10.40 - 11.10 Jukka Lausmaa, SP/GU, “BiomatCell, VINN Excellence Center”
11.10 - 11.40 Julie Gold, CTH, “Lipid membranes:Biomaterials for biosensing and cell engineering”
11.40 - 12.00 Closing of meeting.
12.00 - Lunch