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Recent Invited talks
University of Pennsylvania Cartilage Symposium.April 2024
Title: Immunomodulation of whole joint responses to microfracture for cartilage repair by intra-articular injection of chitosan, Synvisc®, or saline.
McGill University Department of Experimental Surgery & Injury Repair Recovery Program 2023-2024 Virtual Seminar Series Invited Lecture, Oct, 2023
Title: Injury-induced remodeling and regeneration of hard and soft tissue interfaces
Canadian Connective Tissue Conference. Keynote presentation
Title: “Guided” Articular Cartilage Repair, June 2023
Materials, Texas USA (Hybrid), April 2023
Title: Effect of post-operative chitosan oligomer intra-articular injection on early articular cartilage repair.
BIOE Symposium, April 2021
Title: Precision medicine tool to monitor thromboinflammation
Bio & Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Workshop, March 2021
Title: Clinical Translation of Biomaterials in Medicine: Bone and Cartilage Repair
Prince William Chamber of Commerce, Manassas, VA, USA. Dec 20, 2019
Title: Getting a leg up on knee pain.
International Cartilage Repair Society. Vancouver, BC, Canada. Oct. 2019
Title: The tidemark.
Tissue Science and Regenerative Medicine. London, UK. June, 2019.
Title: Cartilage engineering with innate immune-modulating biomaterial implants deposited in the subchondral bone marrow.
Canadian Biomaterials Society, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June 2019
Title: From molecules to tissues, through biomaterial-polarized neutrophils and macrophages
International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, CA, USA. April, 2018
Title: Guided bone regeneration into porous bioplastic scaffolds with distinct polymer coatings.
CRMRP Regenerative Medicine Stakeholders Meeting, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Apr 11, 2018
Title: Current challenges in regenerating articular joint tissues in polytrauma
Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Seminar Series, Montreal, QC, Canada. Apr 2018
Title: Chitosan: a polymer that guides the innate immune system from one condition to another
George Mason University, Biomedical Engineering Seminars, Fairfax, VA, USA. March 2017
Title: Biomaterials for Cartilage and Bone Tissue Engineering: Paradigms and Clinical Translation
Canadian Biomaterials Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2017
Title: Merging 2 evolving paradigms in translating biomaterials for bone tissue engineering
Chitin-Chitosan Conference, Kochi India, September 2016
Title: Chitosan-based implants that promote articular cartilage regeneration
International Cartilage Repair Society, Naples, Italy, September 2016
Title: The osteochondral unit normal and abnormal: implications for cartilage repair
International Materials Research Society, Cancun Mexico, Aug 2016
Title: Fusion peptide P15-CSP coatings promote in vitro osteogenesis in 84 and 141 micron pores of 3-D poly(epsilon-caprolactone) scaffolds
American Society for Testing Materials, May 2016
Title: Cartilage Repair Histology: new ASTM
Canadian Biomaterials Society, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Oct, 2015
Title: Bench-to-bedside development of BST-CarGel®, a biomaterial implant for cartilage repair