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Registration now open #UKSB2022

We are happy to open registration for this years conference.

UK Society for Biomaterials 2022 Annual Conference

UKSB2022 will be a celebration of UKSB which was founded in 2000 with the first meeting held at The University of Sheffield in the same year. Please join us back in Sheffield to celebrate over 20 years of our amazing society!

For more information about the conference and for important dates, abstract submissions and exhibitor info please click here.

This year the conference is being hosted at The Edge, Sheffield University June 27-28th 2022

Please click here for the direct registration page.

Looking forward to welcoming you all there!

Abstract deadline moved back

After some requests we have decided to push the deadline for #UKSB2022 abstracts back to 14th April 2022. We hope that this gives you enough time to submit your work for presentation at this years annual conference.

This year we will welcome the biomaterials community to Sheffield, where the UKSB began now 22 years ago. This will be an anniversary celebration delayed slightly due to the past few years of Covid, during which we hosted online annual meetings. #UKSB2022 is set to be an amazing event with some excellent keynote speakers lined up – more details to follow very soon.

Please see here for more details, and importantly for the abstract template and submission info.

ESB 2022

Reminder of upcoming abstract deadline for ESB2022!


The 32nd Annual Conference of the European Society of Biomaterials will take place from September 4 to 8, 2022 in Bordeaux, France.

September, 4-8, 2022

Abstract Submission is open
Deadline : 28 February 2022

Registration through the website here.

Call for Abstracts ESB 2022 | Call for Symposia ESB 2022

Dear members of the UK Society for Biomaterials,

On behalf of the ESB 2022 Organizing Committee, we would like to remind you some ongoing calls and extension deadlines for the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Biomaterials that will be held in Bordeaux, France, on 4-8 September 2022.

  • The Call for Abstracts is open until the 28th of February 2022.

For more information, please visit the conference website https://www.esbbordeaux2022.org.

Please do not hesitate to contact us (contact@esbbordeaux2022.org) in case you have any question or comment.

On behalf of the whole Organizing Committee, we thank you very much in advance for your contribution and support.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at the 32nd ESB Conference in Bordeaux! 

Kind regards,

Joëlle Amédée, ESB 2022 Chair

Didier Letourneur, ESB 2022 Co-Chair

Jean Christophe Fricain, ESB 2022 Co-Chair

Call for Larry Hench Award #UKSB2022

The Larry Hench Young Investigators Prize is a £500 prize to a promising young research scientist in recognition of outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of biomaterials research.

Instructions to Applicant:

In order to complete this application for the award the applicant should follow the instructions given below:

1.    The applicant must submit their CV using the template provided (link below).

2.    Please ensure this CV (including the supporting statement) is no longer than three A4 pages (2 pages for the CV and 1 page maximum for the supporting statement).

3.    Please ensure that the font used is a standard font (e.g. Arial or Times New Roman) and is no smaller than size 10.

4.    Details of what should be included in each section are provided in the CV template (please delete the instructions for each section).

5.    Please email your completed CV to the UKSB at the following email address: p.roach@lboro.ac.uk
(Subject line – “Larry Hench Award 2022“)

6.    The deadline for receiving the emailed applications is: EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 11th MARCH 2022

7.    The UKSB council will make the final decision on the award based only on the information provided on the 2 A4 page CV. Additional information to this will not be considered. Canvassing of UKSB council members is not permitted.

8.    Successful applicants will have to provide an abstract of their work for publication on the UKSB website and present at the UKSB Annual Conference.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Evidence of peer reviewed publications
  • Outstanding contribution and demonstrable research in the field of biomaterials or related areas.
  • Experience in presenting at international and national conferences.
  • Applicants must be no more than 7 years post final degree award at the deadline for submission of application.
  • Applicants can be UK nationals currently researching at an overseas institute, or foreign nationals currently studying in the UK, both must demonstrate 2 years of contribution to UK Biomaterials research.
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Previous prize winners along with other benefits from the Society can be found here.

Save the Date! #UKSB2022

This year’s annual conference will be hosted in The University of Sheffield June 27-28th. This will be a celebration of coming out of covid, with a full programme planned over 2 days. We had intended on holding a 20th Anniversary meeting in 2020 but clearly our plans were halted with all the restrictions, and we thought that it would be much better to celebrate together when we can – and here we are planning the event for this summer!

More details coming out soon, but for now:

  • Abstracts call open – deadline 30th March 2022
  • Registration opens shortly
  • Abstract notifications – we’ll let know by 29th April 2022
  • Early bird deadline – 6th May 2022

We are currently putting together packages for sponsorship, so if you are interested to help support this event please do get in touch.

Any queries and abstract submissions to conference@uksb.org

Future Leaders Virtual Conference 2021

CDTs across the UK regenerative medicine field will come together online from 15th-17th June 2021 to showcase their research.

Abstract and registration is now open to UKSB members for the upcoming event, where we have some excellent confirmed speakers. We have dedicated slots for UKSB member talks and poster flashes with the conference bringing together ~200 attendees across the UK and abroad.

Keynote speakers include:

This is an amazing opportunity to take part and contribute to this network, and we hope that you can join us at this free event. Talks will be aprox. 15 mins long with all talks pre-recorded, with speakers invited for live Q&A. Poster flashes will be 3 mins. We will be hosting a virtual network to support discussion and networking, which we know has worked very well with other virtual events.

Please send abstracts in the template to conference@uksb.org

The abstract template can be found here

Abstract-Template-UKSBDownload

Abstract deadline – 14th May 2021

Submission of poster and pre-recorded talks deadline – 1st June 2021

To register for the event please click here

Looking forward to seeing you there in a few days time.

Paul Roach, UKSB President

UK-Poland Bioinspired Materials Conference

23rd-24th November 2020

Conference addressed to UK and Polish Early Career
Researchers (postdocs and PhD students)

This online event via Microsoft Teams will take place on Monday
23rd and Tuesday 24th November in partnership with the British
Embassy in Warsaw and the UK Science & Innovation Network.

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Please use the following application form if interested to attend.

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BlogSpot: Joint Virtual Conference 24-25th June 2020

Dr Caroline S. Taylor, PDRA, University of Sheffield

My research in peripheral nerve repair (PNR) was featured at the joint UKSB/CDT conference. I delivered a 3 minute flash presentation about the potential of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) as scaffold materials for PNR and was delighted to receive the runner up prize. PHAs are an attractive material of choice in tissue engineering as they are biocompatible, biodegradable and elimate concerns used with other FDA approved synthetic polymers. Using a novel ex vivo nerve injury model, a combination of 3D printing and electrospinning, different materials, and fibre diameters, can be investigated for PNR with medium throughput. PHAs were significantly better at promoting longer neurite outgrowth distances, and Schwann cell migration distances, from Dorsal root ganglia, compared to a polycaprolactone control.

Image of my flash presentation and schematic diagram of the 3D ex vivo model used to test different material scaffolds.

The virtual conference was absolutely brilliant. It was well organised, ran smoothly and a variety of topics in Biomaterials and tissue engineering were discussed. The conference began with a talk from the key note speaker Prof Liam Grover who talked about his work using additive manufacturing techniques in areas of bone/cartilage and skin regeneration, and cornea repair. Two sessions ran parallel to each other after the key note talk, in which I attended clinical applications 1, followed by the poster discussion session. I particularly enjoyed clinical applications 2, on day 2 of the conference, and the talks by Jessica Wiseman and Simon C. Kellaway.  Jessica’s talk highlighted the use of neurosurgical grade biomaterial Duragen PlusTM, containing collagen type 1, to repair traumatic spinal cord injury and Simon’s talk used an alternative approach to PNR engineering Neural Tissue from Decellularised Biomaterials. Both these talks compliment my own research in PNR. Overall, the virtual conference was a huge success and I would like to thank the organisers for including my work in the programme.

Caroline submitted the blog as part of the conference competition. She has been selected and has won herself an intensive 2-day training course in lyphilisation sponsered by Biopharma Group. Well done!

Dr Paul Roach, UKSB President

The Power of Bioprinting Webinar

Dear UKSB members,

RegenHU (Switzerland) in collaboration with Dr. Marco Domingos (The University of Manchester) and the Henry Royce Institute (The University of Manchester), will be holding a live webinar next Tuesday 30th of  June 2020, 11am-12pm (GMT) on https://app.livestorm.co/regenhu/the-power-of-bioprinting

The Power of Bioprinting 

If you want to know how 3D Bioprinting is revolutionizing the fields of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, and how these technologies can be exploited to serve the purposes of your own research, please join us for this exciting event. We will be covering different topics including:

  • 3D Printing Scaffolds
  • Additive Manufacturing Techniques
  • What is Bioprinting
  • Introduction to Bioprinting Materials
  • 3D Bioprinting Application Examples

There will be a Q&A session at the end where you can join the discussion and interact directly with the speakers.

For more information please check out our social media posts:

Please note that this webinar is being recorded and the recording will be made available after the meeting, so please ensure you are muted when you join.

Best wishes,

Marco Domingos, PhD, CEng, FHEA, FIMechE

Future Leaders Virtual Conference: CDT-UKSB

We are in the final throws of collating information, talks, poster flashes and the programme for the upcoming conference which has already attracted nearly 200 registered guests.

This is an amazing opportunity to take part in a focused event, bringing us together in these virtual times.

A FINAL programme can now be found on our website, so please do consider registering if you haven’t already.

Looking forward to seeing you there in a few days time.

Paul Roach, UKSB President

Banner caption: Phase contrast microscopy of SHSY in collagen gel
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