Dr. Adams is currently an orthopaedic surgery resident at Duke University Medical Center.  He recently completed an NIH sponsored post-doctoral research fellowship in the Cartilage Mechanics and Tissue Engineering Laboratory of Dr. Lori Setton at Duke University.  After completing his residency, he intends on pursuing a foot and ankle surgery fellowship.

Aase Bodin
Current position:
Doctor in Biopolymers with expertise in fermentation of Bacterial cellulose grafts.

Dr. Bodin is partly working as a project leader for the set up of a production lab as well as with the product development and verification of cellulose grafts for the BBV project. BBV stands for Biosynthetic Blood Vessels and is a big cooperation project between Chalmers University, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Uppsala University, Royal Institute of Technology and Linköping University. The Project was 2007 granted 9,6 million SEK with the aim to produce artificial blood vessel made of microbial derived cellulose. Aase Bodin received her Ph.D. in Biopolymer March 2007. The dissertation was entitled "Biomedical Applications of Bacterial Cellulose: Fermentation, Morphology and Surface Properties". The work is both of academic character but the product development and verification of the cellulose grafts are in close collaboration with the newly biotech start-up Arterion AB, www.arterion.se, where Dr. Bodin also is one of the innovators and joint owners. BBV is operated from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering/Biopolymer technology.

Mats Brittberg
Current Position:
Associate Professor, Cartilage Research Unit, Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg/Orthopedic surgeon, Kungsbacka Hospital, Kungsbacka, Sweden.

Dr. Brittberg received his MD at University of Gothenburg in 1978 and completed a specialization in orthopedics in 1985. In 1992 he passed the Swedish Orthopedic Board Exam (S.O.B.E.), and in 1996 he earned a PhD. In 2002, he became Associate Professor of orthopedics at the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg. Dr. Brittberg´s research has been focused on cartilage repair and with main focus on cartilage regeneration with in vitro expanded autologous chondrocytes. Today the main interest is the recent started European Connective Tissue Engineering centre (ECTEC) which is a research collaboration between Göteborg Medical University with the institution of Polymer Technology, Chalmers Technical University. Dr. Brittberg has also research collaboration with Virginia Tech in USA on biotribology in cartilage and osteoarthritis as well as research collaborations with other centers in Europe and North America. Dr. Brittberg has been on the board of TESi (Tissue engineering Society International) and is now chairing the Cartilage Committee of ESSKA 2000. Since the start in 1997, He has been working with ICRS, as secretary, Vice-president and president. He is now past-president.

Rickard Brånemark
Dr. Brånemark, born 1960 M.D., Göteborg University, Sweden. M.Sc., Technical Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. Ph.D. Thesis "A Biomechanical Study of Osseointegration. In-vivo measurements in rat, rabbit, dog and man". Department of Orthopaedics, Institute of Surgical Sciences and Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden. Specialist of Orthopaedics. Founder, Integrum AB Director, Centre of Orthopaedic Osseointegration (COO), Department of Orthopaedics, Göteborg University, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Present research areas: Experimental studies on osseointegration and osseoperception. Clinical evaluation of bone anchored prostheses. Biomechanical analysis of bone anchored prostheses.

Boo Edgar, Dr Med Sci
Current position:
Director Göteborg International Bioscience Business School, GIBBS, Sweden

Dr. Edgar has vast professional experiences within the pharmaceutical industry and life science area, including clinical pharmacology and clinical research, project management, R&D Strategy Development. He is also an entrepreneur and have been involved in several start ups within the life science area, and was one of the founders of Cellartis, nowadays a Swedish/British company focused on human embryonic stem cells for drug discovery, toxicity testing  and regenerative medicines. Dr. Edgar is a member of the board of several new companies and is the chairman of the board of MedCoast Scandinavia an organisation devoted to developing the Oslo-Göteborg region biomedical capabilities. He is part of the team that have created GIBBS, the first master programme to focus on business creation and entrepreneurship in bioscience.

Paul Gatenholm
Current position:
Professor of Biopolymer Technology at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Chalmers, Sweden, Adjunct Professor of School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences at Virginia Tech and at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, USA.

Dr. Gatenholm is Professor of Biopolymer Technology at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Chalmers and Adjunct Professor of  School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences at Virginia Tech and at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. His research interests include bioinspired materials, biomimetic design and biofabrication, scaffolds for tissue engineering, scaffolds-cell constructs, biomaterials and implants. He is member of Editorial Board of four international journals and acts as a Director of Biosynthetic Blood Vessel Program in Göteborg. He is cofounder of European Connective Tissue Engineering Center (ECTEC) in Göteborg which is associated with European Network of Excellence Expertissue and founder of Center for Healing Biomateials at VT/WFU in USA. Dr. Gatenholm has authored/edited 2 books, authored over 180 peer reviewed publications and 10 patents.

Christer Hedman
Current position:
Head of Biomedicine at Business Region Göteborg, Sweden

Dr. Hedman holds a PhD degree in clinical pharmacology. His present position is head of biomedical development at Business Region Göteborg, a regional industrial development agency. Previously, Dr. Hedman spent over 20 years working in the pharmaceutical industry including Astra and a number of start-up companies. He has worked mainly with R&D and business development issues.

Krister Holmberg
Dr. Holmberg is professor of Applied Surface Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology and also Head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He was Director of the Institute for Surface Chemistry in Stockholm between 1991 and 1998. His research interest covers surfactant chemistry, reactions in microemulsions, nanomaterials and biotechnological surface chemistry. He has published 220 papers and 35 patents and written or edited 6 books.

Claudio Migliaresi
Current position:
Professor, Composite Materials & Biomaterials, Dept. of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies, University of Trento, Italy

Dr. Migliaresi is full Professor at the University of Trento , Director of the Research Center on Biomedical Technologies "BIOtech", President of the Inter university Research Centeron Materials for Biomedical Engineering "CIRMIB", Delegate of the Rector for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, Past Dean of the school of Engineering and Department Head. Research activities in the field of polymers, composite materials and biomedical materials, editor of 6 books and author of more than 150 papers and of a few patents.

Anders Palmquist
Current position:
PhD student, Department of Biomaterials, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Master of Science in Materials Engineering from Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Nancy, France and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Rui L. Reis
Dr. Reis is 40 years old, being the Director of the 3B´s Research Group — Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, a Research Unit of excellence based in U. Minho, Portugal. This is one of the most relevant groups in Europe on the field of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and applied stem cell research.

Dr. Reis has well established collaboration with major research groups and companies all over the world. At present he is the co-coordinator of 4 major EU research projects, including the only European Network of Excellence (NoE) on Tissue Engineering: EXPERTISSUES. At present he is principal investigator (PI) of grants totalising around 30 MEuros. As a result of these projects he is presently an advisor of around 80 post-graduation researchers coming from all over the world (more than 20 different nationalities) and also directs the work of 5 other faculty members. Dr. Reis will head, as CEO, the new European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Research, with headquarters in Minho and branches in other 21 locations throughout Europe. He is also the President, Chairman and CSO of the spin-off company Stemmatters.
 
Dr. Reis has also been awarded several prestigious international scientific prizes. He has edited several books and journal special issues, organized different meetings and symposiums, and is on the Editorial Board of many different journals. He is the Editor in Chief of the new journal Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, John Wiley & Sons, launched in 2007. Dr. Reis is an author of more than 200 papers on ISI listed scientific journals, around 130 book chapters in books of international circulation and more than 630 communications in conferences, including around 90 plenary or invited talks delivered worldwide.

Nicole Rotter
Current position:
Associate professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Ulm, Germany

Dr. Rotter received her MD from the University of Munich based on work on tissue engineering of human septal cartilage. From 1996 - 2003 Dr. Rotter worked as physician at the Dept. of Otorhinolaryngolgy at the University of Munich. In 1998 she did a post doc fellowship at the Center for Tissue Engineering in Worcester with Prof. C.A. Vacanti and L.J. Bonassar. From 2003 - 2008 she worked as attending physician at the Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology at the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein in Luebeck and was Head of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at the Department. In 2004 she received her PhD (habilitation) based on work on cartilage and tracheal engineering with a special focus on biomechanical characterisation of engineered tissues. Since March 2008 she holds the position of associate professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Ulm and is Senior Attending Physician at the Department.

Gian Salzmann
Current position:
Dr., Department of Orthopedic Sports Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Dr Salzmann was born in 1978 and raised in Wiesbaden in the middle of Germany. Finished high school there and began his medical studies in Giessen , as well middle of Germany, and finished his medical studies in Munich in 2005. He started residency in the end of 2005 at the above Department where he work since then. His operative spectrum is all knee, ankle and shoulder surgery including all chondral or osteochondral interventions. His special interest from a surgical and scientific standpoint are all cartilage interventive procedures.

Charles Secretan
Dr. Secretan grew up in a small farming community in Southern Alberta in Western Canada. After two years of undergraduate biochemistry he entered the medical programme at the University of Alberta when he was 24 years old. He obtained his M.D. in 2003 and became an othopaedic surgery resident, again, at the University of Alberta.  After two years as a resident, Dr. Secretan put his residency on hold for 3 years while he completed his Ph.D. focusing on cellular therapies for articular cartialge repair. He will complete his Ph.D. this spring and will return to his orthopaedic surgery residency programme in July 2008. 

Felicia Suska
Dr. Suska is a dentist and a resident at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She did her PhD graduate student work at the Department for Biomaterials, Institute for Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, 2004. The PhD thesis “On the initial inflammatory response to variations in biomaterial surface chemistry", received the Award “Best PhD thesis in odontology" in 2006. A personal Marie Curie Fellowship from European Comission was awarded to Dr. Suska in 2003. Her present research interests include the early soft and bone tissues reactions in response to biomaterials, inflammation and osseointegration.

Peter Thomsen
Current position:
Professor of Biomaterials, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden

After a 4-year fellowship with the Swedish Medical Research Council, Dr Thomsen became Professor of Biomaterials, Göteborg University, in 1994. His present research interests include the development of new techniques for analysis of the material - tissue interface. Dr Thomsen is Scientific Leader for the Institute for Biomaterials and Cell Therapy (IBCT), and Director of the recently started BIOMATCELL VinnExcellence Center at University of Gothenburg. He was Visiting Professor at the IRC in Biomedical Materials, London 1999-2000, and International Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering 2000. In 2003, he received the George Winter Award for excellence in biomaterials research.

Katarina Uddenberg
Current position:
Business Development Manager at Cellartis AB, Göteborg, Sweden
 
Ms. Uddenberg has currently a position as business development manager at Cellartis AB in Göteborg, Sweden. She has excellent experience within the stem cell field from 5 years at Cellartis as quality control manager and other positions within the toxicology group and the platform and assay development group. Ms. Uddenberg has a Master of Science in bioengineering from Linköping Institute of Technology, with a specialization on biomaterials and tissue engineering from Buddy D Ratner´s lab at University of Washington Engineered Biomaterial (UWEB), University of Washington, Seattle, USA.