British Society for Matrix Biology

Monday 2nd April

11.00 - 2.00 Registration

12.30 - 2.00 LUNCH

2.00pm Tony Ratcliffe (Advanced Tissue Sciences, La Jolla, USA)
"Vascular Graft Development"

2.40pm Richard Black (Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool)
"Haemodynamic Modelling in Vitro"

3.20pm TEA and Posters

4.00pm Robert Brown (University College, London)
"Cytomechanics and Matrix Architecture in Soft Tissue Engineering"

4.40pm 2x15min Short Communications

5.15pm BSMB - AGM

5.30pm Poster session

6.30pm Buses to Old Trafford for Dinner

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Tuesday 3rd April

9.00am Robert Hawkins (Paterson Institute, University of Manchester)
"Gene Transfer and Gene Therapy"

9.40am Sharon O'Kane (School of Biol. Sciences, University of Manchester)
"Dermal wound healing and Stem cells"

10.20am COFFEE and Posters

10.50am Chris Murphy (Tissue Engineering Centre, Imperial College, London)
"Chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal and embryonic stem cells"

11.20am 4x15min Short Communications

12.20pm LUNCH

1.40pm Brian Ashton (Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry)
"Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation - Lessons for Tissue Engineering"

2.20pm Brian Johnstone (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)
"Meniscal Cartilage Repair "

3.00pm Tony Freemont (School of Medicine, University of Manchester)
"Strategies for Intervertebral disc repair"

3.40pm TEA and depart