Training School
Articular Cartilage Engineering
COST-Action-CA21110-Building an open European Network on OsteoArthritis research (NetwOArk)
| 1 December (Friday) | 2 December (Saturday) | 3 December (Sunday) | |
| 09:00-09:20 | Registration Meeting & Greeting Participants and Patients | Lecture- The role of tissue engineering in osteoarthritis (Prof. Dr. Seda Vatansever, MD, PhD) | Lecture- Cartilage-on-a-chip: Opportunities and challenges (Assoc. Prof. Hüseyin Avcı, PhD) |
| 09:20-09:40 | Lecture- Disease and Illness in OA: netwOArk and building the European Society of OA (EUSOA) (Prof. Christoph Ladel, PhD) | Lecture- Can microfluidics-enabled platforms expedite the assessment of immune response towards implantable biomaterials for the knee? (Prof. Dr. Özlem Yeşil Çeliktaş, PhD) | Lecture-Mesenchymal stem cell treatment for osteoarthritis (Assoc. Prof. Onur Uysal, PhD) |
| 09:40-10:00 | Welcome Erkan İbiş (Rector) & Hatice Gülen (Vice Rector) Ayça Bal Öztürk & Feza Korkusuz (MC) Çağatay Öztürk (Head of Department) | Lecture- Nanoparticular delivery systems for osteoarthritis therapy (Assoc. Prof. Pınar Çakır Hatır, PhD) | Lecture-Exosomes for Articular Cartilage Regeneration (Olcay Eren MD) |
| 10:00-10:20 | Lecture- Synthetic mRNA-based approaches for tissue regeneration – Application potential for the treatment of osteoarthritis (Meltem Avci‐Adali, PhD, EKU Tübingen) | Lecture- Prospective in regenerative medicine and biosensor: when biology meets technology (Valentina Basoli, PhD) | Lecture- Fresh Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation for Cartilage Defects (Prof. Gökhan Meriç) |
| 10:20-11:00 | Break | Break | Break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Lecture- Articular Cartilage Tissue Engineering – From Bench to Bedside (Prof. Feng Huei-Lin PhD, NHRI Taiwan) | Lecture- Current Situation of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Treatments for Knee Osteoarthritis (Massimiliano Rucci, MD) | Lecture- Safety of drugs used in osteoarthritis (Prof. Semra Şardaş, PhD) |
| 11:30-11:50 | Lecture - Bone and cartilage histology and stem cells in osteoarthritis. (Assist. Prof. Hakan Darıcı, PhD) | Lecture - Efficacy of stem cell-rich SVF - stromal vascular fraction fluid in treating osteoarthritis (Aşkın Nasırcılar, Md) | Panel-Knee Osteoarthritis Treatment Algorithms: Perspectives of patients, clinicians and researchers. (Prof. Dr. Çağatay Öztürk, Dr. Gürkan Gümüşsuyu) |
| 11:50-12:10 | Lecture - Obtaining stromal cells from adipose tissue (TOST) with the ultra-sharp blade system and long-term results of orthopedic applications. (Prof. Eray Copçu, MD) | Lecture - Structure and Function of Articular Cartilage (Dr. Girish Pattappa) | |
| 12:10-12:30 | Lecture-3D bioprinting for tissue/organ engineering (Prof. Dr. Bahattin Koç, PhD) | Lecture – Stem cells in orthopedics. (Luminita Labusca, MD PhD, Romania) | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Hands‐on lab experiments – Hydrogel preparation techniques for 3D Cell Culture, Bioink preparation and 3D bioprinting with live cells (Assoc. Prof. Ayça Bal Öztürk, PhD & Assoc. Prof. Emine Alarçin, PhD) | Hands‐on lab experiments – Spheroid - Organoid preparation and culture (Assist. Prof. Hakan Darıcı, PhD) | Hands‐on lab experiments – Project Based Learning- Mini Quiz (Assist. Prof. Hakan Darıcı, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Ayça Bal Öztürk, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Emine Alarçin, Gülşah Torkay &Remzi Okan Akar) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break | Break | Break |
| 15:30-17:30 | Hands‐on lab experiments – Imaging 3D cell culture systems (Assoc. Prof. Ayça Bal Öztürk, PhD & Assist. Prof. Hakan Darıcı, PhD) | Hands‐on lab experiments – Angiogenic potentials of 3D scaffolds in in ovo technique (Gülşah Torkay & Remzi Okan Akar) | Feedback from participants & patients |
NOTE: We kindly ask all trainees to bring their lab coats in order to participate in hand-on-experiment sessions.