Media Briefing
Bio-skin
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RSA announces The Onians Fellowship
The London-based Royal Society for the
encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) has recently announced
the establishment of fellowships in the name of a past Chairman, Dick Onians.
The closing date for the first award is
the FIRST WEEK OF JULY 2000 and application forms are available from the RSA
web-site at www.rsa.org.uk/onians.
The application forms can be filled out after down-loading and should be
returned by E-mail to onians@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Final interviews will take place in August 2000 with a target for the start of a
fellowship of September 2000.
The fellowships are aimed at anyone who
has worked and achieved in their field, including those without formal
qualifications, who have creative ideas and want to make an innovative approach
to challenges in one of three areas:
·
encouragement of successful businesses,
development of more supportive entrepreneurial environment and more effective
funding systems, with a focus on (though not exclusively) enabling young people
to set up their own businesses;
·
encouraging better science, technology or
mathematics teaching in schools or better ways of educating young managers;
·
tourism and new ways of creating new businesses
in rural areas.
The fellowships are worth up to £27,000
(45000 EURO) over a period of up to 2 years and are open to any age of
applicant, although those under the age of 40 will be especially welcomed.
Applicants from outside the UK are also welcome, but must complete their
application form in English.
Editor's
comment: Many of the challenges facing the design, development and introduction
of new biomaterials and tissue engineering into human medicine and into the
social and economic aspects of our national cultures require innovative
approaches. Please take advantage of this unique opportunity to obtain support
for your own creative thoughts, innovative ideas and practical projects.
Meredith Lloyd-Evans June 2000
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On April
13th 2000 in Brussels, the European Commission held a Media briefing on four
European projects in biomaterials, three of them from the European
Biomaterials Network, that are achieving, or have achieved, remarkable
results. Entitled 'Building a bionic body? Biomaterials research for
healthcare', the day was introduced by the EU’s Research Commissioner,
Philippe Busquin. The EBN projects included BE-4612, led by Professor C van
Blitterswijk and Dr J de Bruijn of IsoTis BV, BE-3524, led by Dr Alessandra
Pavesio of the Italian company FAB and BE-4329, led by Dr Thomas Groth of GKSS
Germany, who presented the results of the work of the project consortia on
bioengineered bone tissue, skin and biomembranes for artificial organs. The
PHIDIAS consortium project was also presented, at a site visit in Leuven.
PHIDIAS is dedicated to computer-aided capture of essential information for
surgeons, allowing rapid prototyping and improved surgical placements for
implants. M. Busquin said, ' There are over 100,000
hip revision operations per annum carried out world-wide, over half of which
occur in the EU. Around 1% of the world-wide population is affected at any one
time by leg ulcers, approximately 2 million of which are the result of
diabetes. World-wide there are over 50,000 cases per annum of serious burns,
one of the worst traumas the body can suffer and approximately 10% of which
result in death. Haemodialysis, as a result of organ failure, is required by
several hundreds of thousand Europeans. In addition to the seriously decreased
quality of life and low life expectancy of these patients, costs for treatment
per patient are as much as 50.000 Euro per year. Improved design methodologies
for complex components, which assist the development of custom-made implants
and success of difficult surgical techniques, will go some way to reducing
suffering of patients and will decrease European healthcare costs. We all wish
for our children and grandchildren to live better lives than our parents and
grandparents. These projects, and those like them, go some way to making these
wishes become true.' Click here for a background press release on the briefing.
Information on the
meeting can also be obtained from Stephen.Gosden@cec.eu.int
or Michael-Cristian.Delle-Selve@cec.eu.int
More
details on BE-3524, bioengineered skin, and background information
on skin reconstruction can be found through the links.
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The UK EPSRC has published its second
call for proposals relating to engineering and innovation in healthcare, at http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/documents/support_for_researchers/calls_for_proposals/engman/abinhet2_nw0.htm
or via the main
Engineering For Manufacturing page at http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/PROGRAMMES/PROGRAMMES/Intro/Intro_EM.asp
From there, select "Calls for Proposals" and then the
IntHeTech 2nd Call. The call includes links to the original ROAME Statement and
the Managed Programme Outline
Form which will have to be completed by all proposers.
For further details contact the manager, Oliver Wells
Tel: +44 (0)1483 428909 Mob: +44 (0)7771 598644 Email oliwells@aol.com
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At the 28th International Exhibition
for Inventions, New Technologies and Products, W Roth, the Managing Director
of Erothitan Titanimplante GmbH, received a Gold Medal on behalf of the
Laserapatite consortium, an EC-funded project, several members of which,
including Erothitan and the University of Vigo, are also members of the
European Biomaterials Network. The award is presented by the Thuringian
Inventor's Center and the German Government.
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Greetings Meredith, Is it possible you
could advertise two meetings for me on your web site. I have now made a link
on my groups homepage to your web page under interesting links http://www.ao-asif.ch/ari/research/interface/links.html
  
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