Subject: VPH Newsletter: Summer 2021

VPHi Keynote webinar: Cartilage tissue engineering and damage mechanics using Reactive Mixture Theory 30 September at 15 CEST

Organised by the VPHi student committee, featuring Prof. Gerard Athesian from Columbia University on 30 September at 15 CEST. Chair: S. Mukherhee.

Articular cartilage is the bearing material of diarthrodial joints. It supports contact stresses of up to 12 MPa while exhibiting a friction coefficient as low as 0.002. Cartilage degeneration is a hallmark of osteoarthritis, a debilitating degenerative joint disease that afflicts 30 million Americans. As there is no cure for osteoarthritis, significant focus has been placed on repair strategies such as tissue engineering. Though much progress has been made from empirical approaches in the field of cartilage tissue engineering, we believe that culture conditions that help reproduce functional properties in cartilage constructs may be optimized using suitable theories of growth mechanics based on reactive mixture theory. In this webinar, it will be discussed how advances in theoretical and computational growth mechanics have been applied to enhance nutrient supply to constructs and engineer constructs having the size of entire articular layers. It will also be presented intriguing results that growth of tissue constructs may be accompanied by damage of the freshly synthesized collagen matrix. Strategies for countering this damage will be addressed. 
POLICY NEWS
- Report launched on national strategies for Artificial Intelligence
- Avicenna Alliance gave its contribution to the EC’s public consultation surveys on the European Health Data Space and the rare diseases and paediatric regulations
VPH COMMUNITY
- 2021 Huiskes Medal for Biomechanics to Prof. Marco Viceconti
- Upcoming Avicenna Alliance webinar 
- 2nd International School on In Silico Trials cancelled
We regret to inform you that the 2nd International School on In Silico Trials, which was scheduled to take place online from 6th to 10th September, has been canceled. Thank you for expressing your interest in the initiative!
- Insigneo institute and SANO
- In the literature
STUDENT COMMITTEE
- VPHi keynote webinar: Cartilage tissue engineering and damage mechanics using Reactive Mixture Theory 
- Scolarships
If you have some open positions for PostDocs or PHDs in your University, please let us know! We'll be glad to spread your offer trough our channels!
VPH EVENTS
- CMBBE 2021 Symposium 
- Compbiomed Conference: building the virtual human
- EASYM conference on Systems Medicine Approaches to Global Challenges
On 10 - 12 November, online. The core objective is to foster adoption of Systems Medicine approaches into translational research programs, and in the clinical practice, contributing to define, and implement, novel preventive and personalized strategies aiming at optimizing health value generation.
- VPH 2022 Conference
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