Welcome to AWTRS 2010 ~ Crossing the boundaries

NEWS!!

We warmly invite you to attend the 2nd Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society Meeting, March 22-24, 2010 at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Perth Western Australia. (Noticeboard flyer...)

Pre-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP / MASTER CLASS
The program has expanded in 2010 to include a Pre-conference Workshop / Master Class, from 1:30-5:30pm on Monday 22nd March, with Presenters Prof Paul Martin and Prof Rob Short, facilitated by Prof Zee Upton.

The conference dinner follows immediately and is the beginning of the main meeting.

AWTRS 2010
The AWTRS 2010 program is cross-disciplinary in design and includes invited International and national speakers and contributed papers in basic and clinical research. The subtitle for the meeting is “Crossing the boundaries”: AWTRS 2010 aims to stimulate research and clinical outcomes by introducing new concepts, technologies and approaches – to expose delegates to alternate means of approaching their research topic and experimental programs, and their clinical practice.

The website is open to receive your registration and abstract submission. As with the past meeting, AWTRS 2010 abstracts will be published in Wound Repair and Regeneration, the premier journal in the field.

INVITED SPEAKERS include:

• Prof Jeffrey Hubbell, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  Biomaterials - applications in tissue engineering and drug delivery
  
• Prof Paul Martin, University of Bristol, UK
  Wound healing and inflammation
• Prof Cees Oomens,
  Molecular and biological basis for wound responses to pressure
  
• Prof Fiona Wood, WA Burns Service, McComb Foundation and UWA
  Systemic response to skin injury
• Prof Laura Edsberg, Center for Wound Healing Research, NY USA
  Proteins and pressure ulcer outcomes
  
• Prof Prue Hart,Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and UWA
  Vitamin D and the Skin Immune System
• Prof Rob Short, The University of South Australia
  Surface engineering technologies - for cell therapy, tissue engineering and life science research tools
  

THEMES AND TOPICS include:

• Chronic wounds - mechanisms and diagnostics
  
• Fibrosis, scarring and wounds
  
• Frontier therapies: Biotherapeutics and biomaterials
  
• Inflammation and immunity in wound healing
  
• Microorganisms and wounds
  
• Novel mechanisms of repair
  
• Pre-clinical models of wounds and healing
  
• Regeneration

REGISTRATION and PRIZES
Please advise research colleagues and collaborators of the dates of the meeting and registration details. Membership of AWTRS attracts discounted registration fee (join here). There are also postdoc and student Prizes, for eligible members. Please join ASAP as there are restrictions relating to length of membership.

AWTRS 2010 precedes The Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) 2010 Conference, Journey into New Frontiers. A generous discount has been arranged for AWTRS2010 delegates to attend the first day of the AWMA conference - the program for this day will be designed to be of value to researchers who are interested in the clinical context of wound and tissue repair.  This package is available as part of online registration.

Dr Hilary Wallace, The University of Western Australia, Co-convenor
Dr Mark Fear, The McCoomb Research Institute, Western Australia, Co-convenor