program

The scientific program is developing very well, and several distinguished keynote speakers have already confirmed their participation. Below you will find the preliminary program outlining the key topics


08:30 Registration, Welcome Coffee and Exhibition

09:00 Welcome Message


Session 1: New Production Concepts                                   Chairperson: Francisco Faoro

09:15 Keynote: Raphael Wagner (Straumann): Insights from Industry

09:35 Keynote: Adrien Rodrigues (CHARMILLES): Digital five-axis Laser Blasting, an alternative to conventional blasting processes for orthopedic Implants

09:55 Flash Presentations Exhibitors and Posters (1 min. each)


10:25 Break, Exhibition and Poster


Session 2: New Production Concepts                                    Chairperson: Martin Stöckli

11:10 Loïc Mosser (ICube): Robotized additive manufacturing of technical paste-like materials on curved and moving surfaces

11:20 Keynote: Michaela Maintz (Oral and maxillofacial surgery | 3D Print Lab – University Hospital Basel): Patient-Specific Solutions – 3D-Printed Implants and Computational Bone-Implant Modeling


Session 3: Market Challenges                                   Chairperson: Christiane Jung

11:40 Keynote: Nora Schweizer (J&J / Expert group Market Access Swiss Medtech): Access to innovation: a Swiss regulatory and reimbursement perspective

12:00 Keynote: Tobias Bodenmüller (medmix): PPWR and its Impact on the Industry


12:20 Lunch, Exhibition and Poster


Session 4: Antimicrobial Surfaces                                   Chairperson: Katharina Maniura

13:50 Keynote: Benjamin Fischer (Oerlikon Balzers): A journey to the surfaces of operating rooms

14:10 Keynote: Pune Nina Paqué (Clinic of Reconstructive Dentistry, UZH): Oral Biofilms - Bridging Science, Technology and Clinical Application

14:30 Thomas Schaer (University of Pennsylvania): Aerosolized Bacteria Model of Operating Room Contamination of Orthopedic Implants

14:40 Christopher Hartl (OFI - Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Chemie und Technik): Test strategies for the characterization of antimicrobial surfaces and materials: insight, overview and outlook

14:50 Keynote: Andrea Montali (AO Foundation, Innovation Translation Center, Davos): A look into the surgeon’s toolbox: antibacterial coatings

15:10 Keynote: Qun Ren (Empa Biointerfaces): Materials-Based Antimicrobial Solutions and Testing


15:30 Break, Exhibition and Poster


Session 5: Materials and Surfaces                                   Chairperson: Michael de Wild

16:15 Keynote: Leopold Berger (Kairos Medical): Biodegradable Magnesium Implants: Current Developments and Future Challenges

16:35 Maxence Hannard (Empa): Trace iron in body fluids: a hidden driver of magnesium implant degradation

16:45 Martina Cihova (Empa): Hidden Heterogeneity at the CoCrMo Surface: A Spatially Resolved View on Implant Biocorrosion

16:55 Benjamin Kruppke (Institut für Bioprozess- und Analysenmesstechnik e.V.): Bioinspired Hydration Coatings to Reduce Friction and Wear in Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty

17:05 Keynote: Arnaud Scherberich (Department of Biomedicine / University of Basel): Translational and material aspects in the engineering of hypertrophic cartilage organoids for bone regeneration


17:25 Roundup


Poster Author & Title

1 Sven Zaugg (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW): Batch variability of albumin-based scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering

2 Endre Horvath (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW): Micro- and Nanomechanics of BSA-Loaded PLGA Microspheres

3 Yanik Streit (Empa): Laser-Induced Oxide Heterogeneity on Titanium: Implications for Implant Surface Function

4 Irina Ilic (Surgical Fusion Technologies): Computational Modelling of an Ultrasonically Assisted Subcortical Anchoring System

5 Nicolas Bouduban (Swiss m4m Center): Medical Device Integrated Hybrid Manufacturing

6 Jiri Nohava (Anton Paar TriTec SA): Interesting applications of pin-on-disc in biotribology

7 Jean Geringer (Mines Saint-Etienne): Antimicrobial Cationic Surfaces for 3D-Printed Immediate Denture Base Resins

8 Marc Bohner (RMS Foundation):  Needle-like hydroxyapatite particles as immunological modulator for enhanced osteoinduction

9 Stefan Jakobs (RMS Foundation):  Two fix-and-replace techniques for acetabular T-type fractures: primary stability under cyclic loading, measured optically

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