Overview of Symposia Tracks Overview of Symposia ............................................................................................................................. 1 Tracks ................................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Cell sources (autologous & allogeneic) .......................................................................................... 6 1.1. Regenerative and modelling approaches in the cardiovascular field ..................................... 6 1.2. Translating perinatal derivatives into effective therapeutics for immune-based diseases .... 6 1.3. iPSC-based bioengineering for tissue regeneration during aging and disease ....................... 6 1.4. Cell-based regenerative therapy for joint repair ..................................................................... 7 1.5. RNA Therapeutics for Bone Regeneration .............................................................................. 7 1.6. Cell-assembled tissue engineering therapies for tendon repair and regeneration ................ 7 1.7. Exogenous vs endogenous cell therapy for IVD regeneration ................................................ 8 1.8. Immune cells: alternative approach for cell-based tissue regeneration ................................ 8 1.9. Recent advances in Cell Transplantation and Angiogenesis ................................................... 8 1.10. Tissue Regeneration, Senescence and Aging ...................................................................... 9 1.11. Engineering red blood cell membranes for drug delivery ................................................... 9 2. Biomaterial design & development ............................................................................................. 10 2.1. Biomaterials and Immunomodulation .................................................................................. 10 2.2. Biomaterials for Stem Cell Culture and Differentiation for Stem Cell Therapy ..................... 10 2.3. Korea-EU combined symposium : Updates on tissue engineering approaches to treat osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease .................................................................................... 10 2.4. Gene Delivery and Therapy in Tissue Engineering ................................................................ 11 2.5. Functionalised living materials in cell and tissue engineering .............................................. 11 2.6. Engineering extracellular matrices: Fabrication methods and applications in Regenerative Therapies ........................................................................................................................................... 11 2.7. Glycoscience in tissue engineering: from glycobiomaterials to glycosignature in regeneration ...................................................................................................................................... 12 2.8. Instructive materials for biomedical applications ................................................................. 12 2.9. Injectable Biomaterials for Translational Medicine .............................................................. 12 2.10. Bioengineering of dynamic-instructive cell microenvironments for enhanced tissue engineering applications ................................................................................................................... 13 2.11. Novel Biomaterials for the Repair of the Intervertebral Disc ............................................ 13 1 2.12. Multifunctional surfaces and biomaterial risk assessment in tissue engineering............. 13 2.13. Endogenous tissue regeneration: bioactive materials and novel technologies ................ 14 2.14. In situ tissue regeneration: endogenous cell recruitment, bioactive signals, an biomaterial design ............................................................................................................................. 14 2.15. Electroactive bioinks for biofabrication and tissue regeneration ..................................... 14 2.16. Advances in natural and bioinspired hydrogels for regenerative medicine ..................... 15 2.17. Supramolecular biomaterials ............................................................................................ 15 2.18. Smart-materials for tissue engineering under external stimulus ...................................... 15 2.19. Targeted delivery using medical devices in regenerative medicine ................................. 16 2.20. What about the bacteria? ................................................................................................. 16 2.21. 20 years in silk technologies from production, clinical translation, to commercialization 16 2.22. Bio-inspired technologies for Peripheral Nerve Repair ..................................................... 17 3. Biofabrication................................................................................................................................ 18 3.1. Disruptive biofabrication techniques, materials and strategies for application in TE&RM .. 18 3.2. Melt Electrowriting ................................................................................................................ 18 3.3. Smart biomaterials and dynamic biofabrication processes powered by light ...................... 18 3.4. Microfluidic Biofabrication: a hybrid platform for the printing of functional hierarchical tissues 19 3.5. Scaffold-free strategy for tissue engineering ........................................................................ 19 3.6. Clinical applications of the Kenzan method .......................................................................... 19 3.7. Bioprinting and bioassembly as means for automated realization of 3D tissue constructs . 19 3.8. Biofabrication of (multiscale) vasculature and vascularized organs and tissues .................. 20 3.9. Osteochondral defects: engineering the cell-matrix interface with additive manufacturing. The AO Collaborative Research Program. ......................................................................................... 20 3.10. Image-based High-resolution Biofabriation ...................................................................... 21 3.11. Biofabrication and Stem Cell Research in Space ............................................................... 21 3.12. Embedded Approaches for Advanced Biofabrication ....................................................... 21 3.13. Medical electrospinning: art of science? ........................................................................... 22 3.14. When biofabrication meets bioreactors: implementing construct maturation and functional tissue culture .................................................................................................................... 22 3.15. Sound patterns as a novel biofabrication platform........................................................... 23 3.16. Toward a model-based control of biohybrid implant maturation - MoReBioMed / DFG PAK 961 patterns as a novel biofabrication platform ....................................................................... 23 2 4. Mechanisms of action ................................................................................................................... 24 4.1. Developmentally inspired therapies for joint diseases and large bone defects ................... 24 4.2. Immunomodulation to enhance bone healing ...................................................................... 24 4.3. To Scaffold or not to Scaffold? Strategies for the realization of biomimetic neuronal microenvironments ........................................................................................................................... 24 4.4. Harnessing the Extracellular Matrix for driving tissue repair ................................................ 25 4.5. Harnessing the host response for materials-driven in situ tissue regeneration ................... 25 4.6. Biomimetic elastin-generating approaches to restoring functional elastic tissues .............. 26 4.7. Advanced therapies for cardiac regeneration ....................................................................... 26 4.8. Towards effective vascularisation and angiogenesis of tissue engineered grafts ................ 27 4.9. Engineering functional in vitro microenvironments to control cell fate ............................... 27 4.10. Lung and airway engineering ............................................................................................ 27 4.11. Tissue Engineering innovations in Otology ....................................................................... 28 4.12. Mechanobiology for 3D soft materials .............................................................................. 28 4.13. Extracellular Vesicles for Tissue Regeneration: Integrated perspectives from Industry, Academia and Clinic .......................................................................................................................... 28 4.14. Informing Stem Cell-Based Tissue Engineering with lessons from embryonic development 29 4.15. Respiratory, Reproductive, Urologic and Gastrointestinal Tissue Engineering - Different Organs, Similar Strategies? ................................................................................................................ 29 5. Process engineering .....................................................................................................................