NIBIB 2008 Transforming Regenerative Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Please join the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in attending a workshop on “Transforming Regenerative Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Approach” to be held May 19–20, 2008, at the Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, Maryland.

The primary objective of this critical workshop is to bring together leaders in the multiple fields that constitute regenerative medicine to explore strategies for better coordinating biological knowledge, engineering technologies, and clinical needs with resources to promote transformation of regenerative medicine.

Through a series of four scientific sessions, this two-day workshop will address the following overarching questions:

How do you build an effective regenerative medicine interdisciplinary team?
How do you coordinate biological knowledge, engineering technologies, and clinical needs?
What information and expertise is needed to effectively translate regenerative medicine research to patients/products?
What can the NIH do to better coordinate regenerative medicine research to achieve transformation of this field?

The four scientific sessions include:

Generation and Regeneration: Learning from Nature
Cell-Instructive Technologies for In Vivo Regeneration
3-D Engineered Tissues In Vitro and In Vivo
Functional Integration of Engineered Tissues: More Than the Sum of Its Pieces

Registration for this workshop is free and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please contact Ms. Katie Serrano (serranok@mail.nih.gov) for questions regarding the workshop.

DATES to REMEMBER
Hotel Registration Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2008
Workshop Registration Deadline: Friday, May 2, 2008
Speaker Abstract and Biography Deadline: Monday, April 28, 2008