Fellows Debate at ESB 2025, Turin, Italy

ICF-BSE Fellows Debate SessionWednsday, September 10th, 202515:00-16:30, Auditorium   The Fellows Debate hosted this year at ESB2025 was a remarkable success! More than 200 attendees enjoyed listening to and engaging the speakers who debated on the motion “This house believes that the widely accepted definition of biomaterial needs to evolve to better encompass the increasing development [...]

Fellows Debate at WBC 2024, Daegu

ICF-BSE Fellows Debate Session, WBC 2024, Daegu, South Korea Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 12:20-13:30 Pictured left to right: Bikramjit Basu, Laura Poole-Warren, Rui L. Reis, Milica Radisic and Changyou Gao The 11th  ICF-BSE Fellows Sessions  hosted at WBC 2024, on May 28th, in Daegu, South Korea was a huge success!”. The “Special Fellows Session” is [...]

Fellows Debate at ESB 2023, Davos

ICF-BSE Fellows Debate Session, ESB 2023, Davos Wednesday, September 7th, 2023 16:15-18:00 The Fellows Session hosted at the ESB 2023 was held on  September 7th, in Davos, was a great moment where attendees enjoyed listening to and engaging the speakers who debated on the Motion: "This house believes that the future of biomaterials lies much [...]

Fellows Debate at ESB 2022, Bordeaux

ICF-BSE Fellows Debate Session, ESB 2022, Bordeaux Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 14:45-16:15 The Fellows Session hosted at the ESB 2022, on  September 7th, in Bordeaux, was of great success! The attendees enjoyed listening to and engaging the speakers who debated on the Motion: "This house believes that in the next decade it will be possible [...]

Fellows Debate at SFB 2019

Pictured left to right: Joachim Kohn, Hasan Uludag, Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, and Ali Khademhosseini   The Fellows Session hosted this year at SFB 2019 was an outstanding success! The approximately 150+ attendees enjoyed listening to and engaging the speakers who debated on the topic "In-Situ Approaches for Tissue Creation are Better than ex-vivo Approaches." Thank [...]

Fellows Debate at ESB 2018

Pictured left to right: Joachim Kohn, Abhay Pandit, Andrés García, and Serena Best A Fellows Session was hosted at ESB 2018 and we are happy to report it was a great success! The approximately 100 attendees enjoyed listening to and engaging the speakers who presented on "The One Billion Euro Gamble: Are these the next [...]

Fellows Session at ESB 2017 – A Great Success!

    We are excited to report the fellows session was a great success! The room was standing-room only and an audience of approximately 200 enjoyed the presentations by Fellows on Important Biomaterials Science Controversies. The College is looking to build on the success of this event at future Society meetings and the [...]

Fellows Session at ESB 2017 – Important Biomaterials Science Controversies 

[This event has passed, please see report here] We are excited to announce the Fellows Session at ESB 2017! It will be held Tuesday, September 5th 12-13:30 in Voudouri Hall The topic will be Important Biomaterials Science Controversies and will feature brief talks by 5 Fellows. Each talk is based around a different current controversy in [...]

Fellows Debate at SFB 2017

  Pictured from L to R: Michael Sefton, Jack Ricci, Fred Schoen, Joachim Kohn, David Granger, Peter Ma and Paul Santerre A very successful debate was held at the Society for Biomaterials meeting in April on the topic Clinical studies are the only true predictor of safety and efficacy for all new medical technologies. At [...]

ICF-BSE Fellows Debate Session Topic: Nanotechnology is More Hype Than Hope

ICF-BSE Fellows Session, WBC-Montreal 2016 Wednesday May 18th, 2016 16:30-18:30 “Is Nanotechnology More Hype Than Hope?” Speakers: Joelle Amedee, Antonietta Gatti, John Hunt, John Kao, Michael Sefton, Liping Tang" Moderator: Joachim Kohn The “Special Fellows Session” is organized by the International College of Fellows in Biomaterials Science and Engineering (ICF-BSE). Special Fellows Sessions explore pertinent [...]