2022 eCM20: Cartilage and Disc Repair and Regeneration
15th – 18th June 2022, Congress Center, Davos, Switzerland

Keynote program (subject to change)

Wednesday, June 15th

Session 1          Opening Session and Berton Rahn Award

13:15 – 13:45    Stephen Ferguson (CH) Berton Rahn winner 2022

13:45 – 14:15    Jos Malda (NL) Berton Rahn winner 2021

14:15 – 14:45    Ling Qin (HK) Berton Rahn winner 2020 (recorded)

Session 2          Clinical developments

15:15 – 15:45    Ivan Martin (CH)
A translational trajectory from the nose to the knee

15:45 – 16:15    Keren Bismuth (FR)

Session 3         Senescence – Apoptosis – Autophagy

16:45 – 17:15    Lisbet Haglund (CA)
Cell senescence and senolytic drugs to treat back-pain in mice and men

17:15 – 17:45    Francisco J Blanco (ES)

Thursday, June 16th

Session 4          Tissue function and dysfunction

08:30 – 09:00   Frank Beier (CA)
What do mouse studies teach us about osteoarthritis?

09:00 – 09:30   Ali Mobasheri (CA)
Immunometabolism in disc and cartilage in health and disease

Session 5          iPS Cells

11:00 – 11:30    Anne Camus (FR)
Generation of intervertebral disc progenitor cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells

11:30 – 12:00    Solvig Diederichs (DE)
Induced pluripotent stem cells for cartilage regeneration

Friday, June 17th

Session 6          Mechanobiology and Modeling

08:30 – 09:00    Fabio Galbusera (IT)
Computational modeling and artificial intelligence in spine research

09:00 – 09:30    Ilse Jonkers (BE)
An integrated, multi-scale approach to understand the role of mechanical loading in cartilage homeostasis and disease: Bridging from joint to chondrocyte

Session 7          Tissue engineering and Regenerative medicine

11:00 – 11:30    Sylvia Nürnberger (AT)
Enhancing endogenous repair of osteochondral defects with biomaterials

11:30 – 12:00    Ling Qin (US)
Developing novel treatments for joint diseases

Session 8          ORS Spine Session   

17:00 – 17:30    Christine Le Maitre (UK)
Regeneration of the intervertebral disc for back pain targeting the degenerate niche

17:30 – 18:00    Uruj Zehra (PK)
Vertebral endplate changes and back pain: are there any clinically relevant phenotypes?

Saturday, June 18th

Session 9           Tissue Crosstalk      

08:30 – 09:00     Carla Cunha (PT)
Immune cells in IVD therapies: cause, consequence or tool?

09:00 – 09:30    Stefan Dudli (CH)
Disc-bone marrow cross-talk with Modic changes

Session 10        Drug and Gene delivery           

11:00 – 11:30    Ken Howard (DK)
Nucleic acid therapeutics: routes, barriers and delivery solutions

We advise all presenters to look at the TIPS FOR TALKS (290kB) presentation and read these guidelines (34kB) before starting to prepare their talks. Science is in the detail. It is the lifeblood of science to discuss.
All invited talks are 20 minutes (20-30 slides) to allow 10 minutes discussion per talk.
All submitted talks are 10 minutes (10-15 slides) to allow 5 minutes discussion per talk.
Chairpersons will cut people off who try to use this time for their talks!
Please bring a copy of your talk on CD or USB stick to give to Presentation Support, Sunday morning at Registration.

Paper Submission
We invite all keynote speakers to submit a paper (either original research report, original review*or original tutorial*) to the European Cells & Materials (eCM) online 'Open & Free Access' journal.*NOTE: We define a REVIEW PAPER as a paper which includes an extended literature review and complete bibliography (including authors' own work), and can also emphasise authors' new unpublished findings and in an extended discussion puts the topic in proper perspective. A review can also be based on a complete bibliography of an author's own work over several years in relation to others. A TUTORIAL PAPER contains an organised comprehensive review of all relevant published material as for a teaching lecture.