Welcome to the SSB

The Swiss Society for Biomaterials (SSB) welcomes you to its home page. The SSB is the assembly of people in Switzerland working or interested in the field of biomaterials, be it on the industrial or the university level. Our Charter and Bylaws describe the goals of our Society. We welcome everybody interested in the wide field of biomaterials to join our Society and to participate in our meetings. The SSB is officially affiliated with the European Society for Biomaterials.

SSB 2010

SSB 2010 meeting took place on May 5, 2010 at Empa in Dübendorf. It was organized by Katharina Maniura and Arie Bruinink, with the support of Giancarlo Rizzoli and Manfred Zinn. The 2010 conference focused on "Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering" with a special emphasis on:

• Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering: novel approaches, concepts as well as limitations
• Stem cells and biomaterials
• Monitoring of cell fate in tissue engineering approaches
• Mechanics of cells in context with biomaterials

There were three invited talks:

• Clemens van Blitterswijk (Twente University, The Netherlands) on "Materiomics: Dealing with Complexity in Tissue Engineering"
• Patrick Schmutz (Empa, Switzerland) on "In vitro Investigation and Tailoring of Corrosion Mechanisms for Biodegradable Mg-Alloys Implants"
• Lutz Nolte (KTI, Switzerland) on "Swiss Medical Technology & Innovation Promotion"

Besides these three invited lecturers, there were 12 other oral communications and 43 poster presentations. All abstracts are published in the ECM journal, the official journal of the SSB.

120 attendees were present at the meeting.

As in past years, SSB sponsored two awards for the best student presentations. The student awards went to:

• Alex Nilsson (ETH Zurich) for his talk on: "Engineered RGD-Silk Scaffold for Improved Cell Adhesion"
• Christian Zink (ETH Zurich) for his poster on "Two-dimensional morphological gradients for cell biology"

ESB 2009

The Swiss Society for Biomaterials are proud to have hosted the 22nd European Conference on Biomaterials (ESB2009), from September 7-11, 2009 in the Beaulieu Convention Centre, Lausanne. The conference was the annual conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). ESB2009 strengthened the scientific basis of the traditional ESB core topics with several changes to the normal ESB conference structure as well as increasing interaction with both the clinical and industrial side of biomaterials. The majority of participants came from Europe but also a considerable number from Asia, USA and overseas composed of researchers, medical professionals and manufacturers. ESB2009 attracted clinicians by holding several keynote lectures from clinicians, by subdividing the meeting in day themes.

1044 abstracts were submitted for presentation at ESB2009 (The most submitted to an ESB event - previous record 750 abstracts), and there were 250 oral presentations and over 750 posters. A total of 1201 attendees participated at ESB2009 which is the highest registration number for an ESB conference (previous record 1100, ESB2005, Sorrento Italy). more details

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• Moving SSB web site to a new server finished successfully; updating front page, History, Student Awards and General Assembly Reports pages (21.06.2010)
  
• SSB2010 conference pages are open now (20.12.2009)
  
• Updated ESB 2009 information with list of awardees (03.12.2009)
  
• Uploaded images of ESB 2009 (19.10.2009)
  
• Abstracts of SSB student awardees of ESB 2009 uploaded (15.10.2009)
• Updating EC Members, EC Alumni, History (08.10.2009)
  
• New job advert for Doctoral Research Associate (29.07.2009)
  
• New job advert for Principal Investigator in the Tissue Morphology Focus Area (23.07.2009)
  
• New job advert for Project Engineer (20.07.2009)
• New conference (19.06.2009)
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