ESB2009 Local Organisers / SSB Executive Committee

President R Geoff Richards, AO Research, AO Foundation, Davos
Vice President Marc Bohner, Dr Robert Mathys Foundation, Bettlach
Secretary Paul-Henri Vallotton, Symbios Orthopédie SA, Yverdon-les-Bains
Treasurer Armando Salito, Alhenia AG, Baden-Dättwil
Heiko Gruner, Medicoat AG, Mägenwil
Katharina Maniura, Empa, St. Gallen
Giancarlo Rizzoli, Mathys Ltd Bettlach
Kurt Ruffieux, Degradable Solutions AG, Schlieren
Christine Wandrey, EPF Lausanne
Jacques Lemaître (Past President), EPF Lausanne

ESB2009 Swiss National Scientific Committee

Patrick Aebischer, President of EPF Lausanne
Marc Bohner, Skeletal Substitutes, Dr Robert Mathys Foundation, Bettlach
Stephen Ferguson, Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics, Medical Faculty, University of Bern
Peter Frey, CHUV & Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering, EPF Lausanne
Bruno Gander, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zürich
Emanuel Gautier, Cantonal Hospital, Orthopedic Clinic, Freiburg
Robert Gurny, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva
Heike Hall-Bozic, Cells and BioMaterials, ETH Zürich
Paul Heini, Medical Faculty, Insel Hospital, Bern
Heinrich Hofmann, Powder Technology Lab, EPF Lausanne
Willy Hofstetter, Bone Biology, Dept Clinical Research, University of Bern
Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Regenerative Medicine & Pharmacobiology, EPF Lausanne
Brigitte M. Jolles-Haeberli, Ortopeadic Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne
Harm-Anton Klok, Polymers Laboratory, EPF-Lausanne
Jacques Lemaître, Powder Technology Lab, EPF-Lausanne
Katharina Maniura, Lab for Material-Biology Interactions, Empa, St. Gallen
Ivan Martin, Institute for Surgical Research & Hospital Management, University Hospital Basel
Thimios Mitsiadis, Center for Dental, Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Zürich
Philippe Morel, Visceral surgery, University Hospital Geneva (HUG)
Ralph Müller, Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zürich
Bert Müller, Biomaterials Science Center, University Hospital Basel
R. Geoff Richards, AO Research, AO Foundation, Davos
Marcus Textor, Lab for Surface Science & Technology, ETH Zürich
Viola Vogel, Biological-Oriented Material Sciences, ETH Zürich
Janos Vörös, Lab of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, ETH Zürich
Christine Wandrey, Regenerative Medicine & Pharmacobiology, EPF Lausanne

ESB International Scientific Committee

Joëlle Amédée, Victor Segalen University, Bordeaux, France
Luigi Ambrosio, University of Naples, Italy
Karine Anselme, CNRS, Mulhouse, France
Nicola Baldini, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
Mário Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal
Rolando Barbucci, University of Siena, Italy
Clemens A. van Blitterswijk, University of Twente, Netherlands
Yilin Cao, Shanghai, China
Daniel Cohn, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Guy Daculsi, University of Nantes, France
Joost D. de Bruijn, Queen Mary University of London, England
Klaas de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands
Lucy Di Silvio, King's College London, England
Michael Doser, Insititut für Textil- und Verfahrenstechnik Denkendorf, Germany
Nicholas Dunne, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Pedro Granja, University of Porto, Portugal
Takao Hanawa, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Vasif Hasirci, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Jöns Hilborn, Uppsala University, Sweden
John Hunt, University of Liverpool, England
Simon Storgård Jensen, University Hospital Glostrup, Denmark
Gilson Khang, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju. Korea
Young Ha Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea
C. James Kirkpatrick, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Tadashi Kokubo, Chubu University, Matsumoto, Japan
Malgorzata Lewandowska-Szumiel, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Antonio Merolli, The Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy
Claudio Migliaresi, University of Trento, Italy
Bruce Milthorpe, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia
Yannis Misirlis, University of Patras, Greece
Paolo Netti, University of Naples, Italy
Abhay Pandit, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Josep A. Planell, University of Barcelona, Spain
John Ramshaw, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Clayton, Australia
Nicholas A Peppas, The University of Texas, Austin, USA
Buddy D. Ratner, University of Washington, USA
Rui L. Reis, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Julio San Román, Institute of Polymers, CSIC. Madrid, Spain
Etienne Schacht, Ghent University, Belgium
Michael Sefton, University of Toronto, Canada
Elizabeth Tanner, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Cristina Tanzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Pentti Tengvall, Linköpings University, Linköping,Sweden
Michael Tunney, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
María Vallet-Regí, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Heimo O. Ylänen, University of Turku, Finland

*Since ESB2009 is hosted in Switzerland, the ISC does not contain reprasentatives of Switzerland.