BONE BIOLOGY CONGRESS 5th European Clinical Symposium on Bone and Tissue Regeneration  4. – 6. September 2008 Berlin

Dear colleagues,   In spite of improved operation techniques and optimized implants in trauma and orthopaedic surgery, delayed fracture healing, non-unions and large bone defects or broad osseous infections still occur and are difficult to treat. This may also be explained by more complex fractures and an increasing number of osteoporotic patients. To address these difficult situations a profound knowledge on bone biology with complex physiological processes and the effect of new therapies in combination with good mechanical stabilization techniques is necessary. On behalf of the scientific committee of the BONE BIOLOGY CONGRESS  –  the 5th European Clinical Symposium on Bone and Tissue Regeneration  – it is a pleasure  for me  to invite  you  to our next meeting  in Berlin from  September  4-6th , 2008. The clinical application of biological and mechanical principles in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders with a special focus on non-unions, segmental defects and osteoporotic factures will be discussed between surgeons and scientists. Key-note lectures will give an update on molecular mechanisms regulating bone repair, biological enhancement of bone healing using BMPs and other stimulating substances. Further topics to be addressed are tissue engineering of skeletal defects and non-unions and interactions between cells, scaffolds, growths factors and mechanical environment (Diamond concept).

Also we will highlight the economic aspects of those treatment strategies. Together with scientists, leading trauma and orthopaedic surgeons will discuss interesting cases in open panel discussions with all participants. Gerhard Schmidmaier Congress Chairman BBC 2008   Flyer    The BBC 2008 is sponsored by Stryker SA.     I am very much looking forward to welcome you in Berlin in September at the Charité to this outstanding meeting with exciting social events.

Scientific committee BBC 2008:  Peter Giannoudis, UK David Marsh, UK Thomas Einhorn, USA Gerald Zimmermann, Germany Frithjof Wagner, Germany

Organizing committee:  Britt Wildemann, Germany Philipp Schwabe, Germany