TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

Invited talks by experts from Australia and India will be delivered on cutting edge research in the areas of Biomaterials, Implantable Devices, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.

Bioactive surfaces, biomaterial tissue interface, mechanical circulatory support, living free radical polymerization, biomineralisation and efficacy of implants, polymer nanocomposites, bone tissue engineering, and antisense gene therapy etc.

Titles of some of the talks are:-

• Factors Influencing the in vivo Biomaterial Tissue Interface: Cellular Recruitment and Differentiation

• Biomaterials and Biocompatibility Challenges in Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices

• The Role of in vitro Mineralization Studies for Assessing the Efficacy of Implant Materials

• Nanocomposite elastomers: an alternate route to developing bioactive medical polymers

• Living free radical polymerization as a tool for designing well defined materials for biomedical applications

• Bioactive surfaces

• Efficacy of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate-co-3-Hydroxyvalerate) in Bone Tissue Engineering

• Controlled delivery of Oligodeoxynucleotides for Antisense Gene Therapy

• How to design HAp containing bioceramic and biopolymer composites?

• Human embryonic stem cells and its applications

• Prospects and problems in cardiac regeneration

• Thermo-reversible polymer in cultivation of corneal limbal stem cells  

• Islet Neogenesis & Pancreatic Regeneration From Pancreatic & Extra Pancreatic Stem Cells

• Nanotech Approaches To Ceramic Implants For Bone Infections

• Polymeric Prodrugs of Amphotericin B

• Biomaterial Implant for Combined Contraception and Infection Control

• Molecular Basis of Interactions Between Growth Factors and Adhesion Molecules During Melanoma Progression Studied in Human Organotypic Models

Australia

• Prof. Rolfe Howlett, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Dr. John Woodard, Ventracor Inc., Australia

• Dr. Edeline Wentrup-Byrne, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

• Dr. Laura Poole-Warren, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Dr. Christopher Barner-Kowollik, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Dr. Hans Griesser, University of South Australia, Australia

• Dr. Lisbeth Grondahl, University of Queensland, Australia

• Dr. Xia Lou, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

• Dr. Paul Simmons, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia

• Dr. Zee Upton, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

• Dr. David Leavesley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

• Dr. Justin Cooper-White, University of Queensland, Australia

India

• Dr. Bikramjit Basu, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

• Dr. D. Basu, Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkotta, India

• Dr. R.R. Bhonde, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India

• Prof. S.K. Guha, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

• Dr. A. Jayakrishnan, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, India

• Dr. Aparna Khanna, Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai, India

• Dr. C.C. Kartha, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, India

• Dr. H.N. Madhavan, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India

• Shri. C.V. Muraleedharan, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, India

• Dr. Prabha D. Nair, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, India

• Dr. Alok R. Ray, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

• Dr. T.S. Sampathkumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

• Dr. K. Satyamoorthy, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

• Dr. Satish Totey, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, India 

REGISTRATION FEE

 

Early registration - before November 30, 2006. 

Advance registration - before December 31, 2006.

PAYMENTS

The registration fee and any other payments may be paid by Demand Draft or Bankers cheque in favour of BITE&RM2007 payable at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

Contact :
Conference Secretariat,
BITE&RM 2007

Biomedical Technology Wing
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology
Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram - 695012, Kerala, India

Ph: 91 471 2520214 (direct),

91 471 2340801 (exchange)
Fax: 91 471 2341814
Grams: CHITRAMET

E-mail: biteandrm2007@gmail.com 
biteandrm2007@biomaterialsonline.info
http://www.biomaterialsonline.info

Dr. Sheel C. Nuna
Senior Manager
(Education, Science & Training)
Australian Education International,
Australian High Commission
1/50 G, Santhipath
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi 110021
Ph: 91 11 4139 9949
Fax: 91 11 2687 3172
E-mail: sheel.nuna@aei.gov.in