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XLI Annual ESAO Congress
Honorary President
Rocco Bellantone
Congress Presidents
Gerardo Catapano
Celestino Pio Lombardi
Congress Organizer
SC Gruppo Studio Congressi, Roma
local organizing committee
Conforto Silvia
Di Giulio Salvatore
Doglietto Gianbattista
Ferrari Gianfranco
Fofi Claudia
Fresiello Libera, yESAO
Ghirlanda Giovanni
Grigioni Mauro
Guglielmelli Eugenio
Massetti Massimo
Merolli Antonio
Rossini Paolo M.
national
scientific committee
Ambrosio Luigi
Audenino Alberto
Buscaroli Andrea
Catanzaro Mario
Chiesa Roberto
Ciardelli Gianluca
Costantino Maria Laura
Dario Paolo
De Angelis Isabella
De Franciscis Stefano
Faggian Giuseppe
Fumero Roberto
Giuzio Ermenegildo
Lorusso Roberto
Mantero Sara
Martino Gianvito
Quarto Rodolfo
Remuzzi Andrea
Renzulli Attilio
Rimondini Lia
Sannino Alessandro
Santoro Antonio
Stefoni Sergio
Tanzi Maria Cristina
Trivella Maria Giovanna
international
scientific committee
Argiles Angel (F)
Ash Steven (USA)
Atala Anthony (USA)
Baurmeister Ulrich (D)
Chamuleau Robert AFM (NL)
Czermak Peter (D)
Cui Zhangfeng (GB)
Del Canizo Juan (E)
De Luca Michele (I)
Di Molfetta Arianna, yESAO (I)
Eloot Sunny (B)
Falkenhagen Dieter (A)
Gerlach Jörg C (USA)
Glasmacher Birgit (D)
Grijpma Dirk (NL)
Groth Thomas (D)
Jalan Rajiv (GB)
Kertzscher Ulrich (D)
Kes Peter (KR)
Khir Ashraf (GB)
Klein Jon (USA)
Klinkmann Horst (D)
Legallais Cecile (F)
Martin Ivan (CH)
Meyns Bart (B)
Moscato Francesco (A)
Mottaghy Khosrow (D)
Neves Nuno (P)
Ognio Mark T (USA)
Palmer Kenneth (S)
Pestana Jose Medina (BR)
Radisic Milica (CDN)
Reis Rui (P)
Rozga Jacek (PL)
Rutherford Peter (GB)
Santin Matteo (GB)
Sauer Igor M (D)
Schima Heinrich (A)
Sikole Aleksandar (MK)
Slaughter Mark (USA)
Stamatialis Dimitrios (NL)
Stegmayr Bernd (S)
Steinhoff Gustav (D)
Steinseifer Ulrich (D)
Sun Kyung (ROK)
Tominaga Ryuji (J)
Triolo Fabio (USA)
Vanholder Raymond (B)
Verdonck Pascal (B)
Verkerke Bart (NL)
Vienken Joerg (D)
Walpoth Beat (CH)
Wieselthaler Georg (USA)
topics
pre-congress courses
(provisional):
1. Innovation strategies in
artificial organ development
2. Practical simulation
of cannulation and management of ECMO patients
Prof. Mark T. Ogino
3. Artificial internal ankle,
knee and hand prostheses
Dr. Ermes Giuzio
Dr. Antonio Merolli
4. Robotized external
hand prostheses
Dr. Christian Cipriani &
Dr. Marco Controzzi (PRENSILIA)
Dr. Silvia Bossi (SMANIA)
The official language is English.
Registration to pre-congress
courses will open on February
24th, 2014.
Adsorption Technologies
Apheresis/Hemapheresis
Artificial Kidney
Artificial Liver
Artificial Lung/ECMO
Artificial Pancreas
Artificial Skin
Bioartificial Organs
Biomaterials
Bridging to Regeneration
Bridging to Transplantation
Cardiovascular (CV) technology
Cardiac valves
Endovascular technology in CV
Mechanical assist systems
& TAH
Cell & Gene Therapy, Genomics
& Proteomics
Computer Modelling
Cryopreservation
Drug Delivery
Ethical issues
Eye prostheses
Implants
Instrumentation
Limb prostheses
Nanobiotechnology
Nanomedicine
Organ Preservation
and Transplantation
Psychological Issues
Regenerative Medicine
Robotics
Stents & Vascular Prostheses
Tissue Engineering
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Gemelli Polyclinics
September 17-20, 2014
Unical
congress objectives
commercial exhibition
to discuss the importance
of technical, psychological
and ethical issue to patient
happiness with serious tissue
or organ deficits
Facilities for exhibition
and commercial products
presentation are available.
Interested companies are
requested to contact the
organizing secretariat.
to re-define the strategy to
design and operate devices
and treatments to ensure
patient happiness
to bring together scientists
with different backgrounds
working on development,
optimization and translation
to clinics of treatments of
organ deficits based on artificial, bioartificial, and cellbased organs or prostheses
to bridge communication
gaps and promote new, or
reinforce existing, multidisciplinary collaborations to
exploit possible synergies
to provide up-to-date information on frontier technology to treat serious tissue
or organ deficits
congress format
Plenary and key lectures
given by invited speakers
Oral and poster presentations of submitted work
given over two and a half
days
Pre-conference hands-on or
talk-to-the-expert courses
on artificial organs-based
treatments
registration
The registration forms are
available in the congress
website (www.esao2014.org).
contacts
organizing secretariat
abstract submission
The ESAO 2014 will take
place at the Giovanni XXIII
congress facilities of the
Gemelli Polyclinics in Rome.
Stefania Cardarelli
Gruppo SC
Studio Congressi
Servizi per la Comunicazione
Via N. Colajanni, 4 - 00191 Roma
Tel. (+39) 06 32 90 250
Fax (+39) 06 36 30 68 97
www.scstudiocongressi.it
www.grupposc.com
The form for abstract submission is available in the
congress website
(www.esao2014.org).
The official language of the
conference is English.
scientific secretariat
Silvia Farè
Dept. of Chem. Mater. & Chem. Eng.
Milan Polytechnics
Bldg. 6, Piazza L. da Vinci, 32
20133 Milano - Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
Phone : +390223993389,
Fax : +390270638173
home page
www.esao2014.org
www.esao.org
Late registration after June 5th
Early bird before June 5th
ESAO 2014 Congress
ESAO members*400 €450 €
Non-ESAO members500 €550 €
Students150 €200 €
One day participation150 €
congress venue
congress language
congress registration fees
industrial symposia
Industrial symposia will be
organised as lunch-symposia.
For detailed information,
please contact the scientific
secretariat.
Pre-congress courses
Students
registering to Congress50 €100 €
non-registering to Congress 75 €125 €
Faculty/Staff
registering to Congress100 €150 €
non-registering to Congress150 €200 €
*to benefit of this fee it suffices to submit an application to ESAO
important dates
April 1, 2014 Submission of abstract
and pre-registration forms
May 15, 2014 Notification of abstract acceptance
June 5, 2014 Registration of presenting authors
in order to have the abstract
published in the book of abstacts.
June 5, 2014
Registration at reducted rates