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• Added Prof. Bert Müller to Executive Committee, moved Dr. Kurt Ruffieux to Honorary Members (23.05.2011)
  
• Added six events (13.04.2011)
  
• Final Programm for SSB2011 posted (29.03.2011)
  
• SSB2011 web site is now open to the public (12.01.2011)
  
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SSB2011 - 17th Swiss Conference on Biomaterials

The 2011 SSB Annual Meeting and General Assembly took place in Yverdon-les-Bains at Y-Parc Technology Campus on May 4, 2011. The topic of the meeting was Applications of Biomaterials in Dental and Musculoskeletal Devices. International keynote speakers shared the podium with biomaterials students and scientists from Switzerland.

The abstracts for the contributions have now been published by the eCM journal.

SSB award for the best presentation on translational research

The award sponsored by the Swiss Society for Biomaterials is aiming at supporting scientific efforts in translational research, i.e. scientific activities helping to transform a research idea into a product.

At the ESB2010 in Tampere, the first SSB awards for the best oral and poster presentation on translational research were distributed.

Best poster presentation on translational research:
"Novel, High Strength Methacrylate Composites Containing Calcium Phosphates and Adhesion Promoting Monomers" (Abstract 3889), Kirsty Main, London, UK

Best oral presentation on translational research:
"Mechanically Active Bioabsorbable Shape-Memory Polymers and Composites - Degradation and Performance" (Abstract 3385), K. Paakinaho, Tampere, Finland

Jury members: D. Grijpma (The Netherlands), M. Doser (Germany), D. Lacroix (Spain), S. Beck (Switzerland), C. Wandrey (SSB secretary), G. Rizzoli (SSB treasurer),  M. Bohner (SSB president)

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"

• SSB2010 Teaser (13.12.2010)
  
• SSB award for the best presentation on translational research (06.12.2010)
  
• Added two events (03.12.2010)
  
• Added several events (15.09.2010)
  
• Updated Honorary Members and EC Alumni (13.09.2010)
  
• 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)

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

• 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)
• New job advert for Postdoc and PhD position (18.05.2009)
• New job advert for Professorship (23.04.2009)
• New job advert for Postdoc position (23.04.2009)
• Prof. R. Geoff Richards, current President of SSB, was appointed as new Director of AO Research and Development as of September 1, 2009. Congratulations! (31.03.2009)
  
• New job advert for Postdoc position (23.03.2009)
• New conferences (04./17.02.2009)
  
• New conferences (18./19.01.2009)
  
• New job advert PhD position (28.10.2008)
• Updated information about ESB2009, new event "Material- und Oberflächentechnologie für Implantate" (14.10.2008)
• Added one new job adverts (25.09.2008)
• Added one new job adverts (16.09.2008)
• Added three new job adverts (15.09.2008)
  
• Just published: Volume 16, Supplement 1, 2008: Swiss Society for Biomaterials (SSB) 2008 annual meeting in Basel, Switzerland (05.08.2008)
• Updated: General Assembly Reports and History (05.08.2008)
  
• ECM IX: Musculoskeletal Trauma: 50 Years of AO Research, 15.06.08-18.06.08; Davos, Switzerland (10.06.2008)
  
• Dr. H. Gruner was elected as an honorary member of the SSB. (10.06.2008)
• Dr. Katharina Maniura and Dr. Giancarlo Rizzoli were elected as new executive members of the SSB. (10.06.2008)
• Deadlines for attendees and poster authors of the 14th Swiss Conference on Biomaterials (17.04.2008):
  • April 21, 2008 Last day for online registration
  • April 30, 2008 Submission of abstract for consideration for last minute
    poster presentation
  • May 2, 2008 Information of last minute poster authors about the
    decisions of the Organizing Committee
    
• Abstract Submission Deadline for the 14th Swiss Conference on Biomaterials has been extended to April 11th (01.04.2008)
  
• The World Biomaterials Congress WBC 2008 in Amsterdam has received an enormous amount of abstracts and a very interesting scientific program. Not registered yet? There is only a limited capacity left. (01.04.2008)
• Call for papers for the 14th Swiss Conference on Biomaterials in Basel on May 8th (11.3.2008)
  
• 35 Student Travel Awards made available for WBC2008 by the journal, Biomaterials (24.09.2007)
  
• New Young Scientists section (17.05.2007)
• The SSB EC has changed at the 13th General Assembly with new president, vice-president, secretary and the initiation of two new posts (currently shared) web editor and student representative. (17.05.2007)
  
• Prof. Heinz Lüthy was elected as an honorary member of the SSB. (17.05.2007)
• SSB Student Travel Awards are available now for SSB student member help to travel to related conferences. (17.05.2007)