During this meeting, many aspects concerning tissue repair and regeneration will be discussed : wound assessment and management, topical treatment, topical negativepressure, cellular and tissue engineering, skin equivalents, growth factors and cytokines, proteases inhibitors, extracellular matrix remodeling, fetal wound healing, wounds that do no heal, ulcers, diabetic wounds, excessive scarring, burns and scar control, bacterial and fungal infections, inflammation, gene therapies, angionesis, stem cells, aging, apoptosis, economical aspects of wound treatment...

Tuesday August 25th 2009

18:00-18:30 Opening Ceremony
18:30-19:30 Honorary guest lecture
- Catherine M. VERFAILLIE, Belgium
19:30-21:30 Welcome Cocktail

Wednesday August 26th 2009

9:00-10:30
Stem cells
- Geoffrey C. GURTNER, Stanford, CA, USA
"Understanding the importance of progenitor cell mediated repair following injury"
- Kenneth W. LIECHTY, Philadelphia, PA, USA
"The use of pure fetal models to define regenerative versus reparative responses to injury"
- Pampee P. YOUNG/Jeffrey DAVIDSON, Nashville, TN, USA
"Generating super MSCs: the WNT inhibitor, SFRP2, enhances mesenchymal stem cell-mediated repair by enhanced MSC engraftment, granulation tissue formation, and vascularity"
- Jean-Jacques LATAILLADE, Clamart, France

11:00-12:30 Parallel sessions
Conference "In memoriam Charles LAPIÈRE"
- Thomas KRIEG, Köln, Germany
- Agnés NOEL, Liège, Belgium
New technologies for shock, trauma and acute wounds
- Robert F. DIEGELMANN, Richmond, VA, USA
- Kevin R. WARD, Richmond, VA, USA
- Jean-Louis VINCENT, Bruxelles, Belgium
Young Investigators, session 1
Selected Abstracts, session 1
Sponsored Symposia

12:30-14:30 ETRS Board Meeting
14:30-16:30 Poster session 1
14:30-15:30
Giulio GABBIANI, Geneva, Switzerland
Ceremony for the title of Docteur Honoris Causa from the University of Limoges, France

16:30-18:00 Parallel sessions
Ageing, tissue homeostasis and repair
- Vincent LAGENTE, Rennes, France
"Macrophage metalloelastase (MMP-12) as a target for inflammatory respiratory diseases"
- Yves POUMAY, Namur, Belgium
"HB-EGF is an epidermal growth factor induced in challenged keratinocytes"
- Dimitris KLETSAS, Athens, Greece
"The role of cellular senescence on tissue homeostasis"
- Karin SCHARFFETTER-KOCHANEK, Ulm, Germany
"Prooxidant changes to the matrix drives ageing"

Antimicrobials Systagenix symposium

Young Investigators, session 2
Selected Abstracts, session 2

18:00-19:00 Conférence Grand Public
Les escarres : traitements actuels et futurs
En collaboration avec l’Association Limousine Des Usagers de la Santé
- Sylvie MEAUME, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
- Alexis DESMOULIERE, Limoges, France

19:00-20:00 Concert
20:30-23:00 Wine and cheese cocktail

Thursday August 27th 2009

9:00-10:30
Molecular and cellular basis of tissue regeneration
- Annette WYSOCKI
"Molecular and cellular basis of tissue regeneration"
- Marek DUDAS, Kosice, Slovak Republic
"Deciphering the isoform-specific effects of growth factros – inventing novel tools"
- Matthias SCHÄFER, Zürich, Switzerland
"A novel role of NRF2 in the response to wounding and UV-induced skin injury"
- Sarah E. HERRICK, Manchester, UK
"Fibroblasts and myofibroblasts in peritoneal pathophysiology"
- Colin McCAIG, Aberdeen, UK
"Electrical control of cell behaviour and wound healing"

11:00-12:30 Parallel sessions

Wound healing with electrical stimulation,
GerroMed and La Diffusion Technique Française (DTF) symposium                                                     
- Ann M. RAJNICEK, Aberdeen, UK
"Mechanisms for epithelial cell guidance by a DC electric field"
- H.C. DIENER, Hamburg, Germany
"Electrical Stimulation for stimulation of chronic wounds"
- E.S. DEBUS, Hamburg, Germany
"Effectiveness, tolerance and safety of electrotherapy with woundEL in wounds – First data"
- Christine E. PULLAR, Leicester, UK
"How Keratinocytes sense electrical guidance cues in wounds, essential for wound re-epithelialisation and repair"

Proteases in tissue repair,
Laboratoires Paul Hartmann symposium
- Sabine EMING, Cologne, Germany
"Alternative proteolytic processing of hepatocyte growth factor controls skin repair"
- Ulrich auf dem KELLER, Vancouver, Canada
"Multiplex discovery of protease substrates and their cleavage sites in complex proteomes"
- Hans SMOLA, Heidenheim, Germany
"Inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase activity in chronic wounds by polyacrylate superabsorber"

Young Investigators, session 3
Selected Abstracts, session 3

12:30-14:30 Wound Repair and Regeneration Editorial Board Meeting
14:30-15:30 General assembly ETRS
14:30-16:30 Poster session 2
16:30-18:00 Parallel sessions
Myelofibrosis
- Stéphane GIRAUDIER, Marie-Caroline LE BOUSSE-KERDILÈS, Villejuif, France
"Fundamental aspects"
- Giovani BAROSI, Pavia, Italy
"Clinical variants and prognostic scores"
- Ayalew TEFFERI, Rochester, MN, USA
"Therapy the past and the future"
Tissue repair and healing with the Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells: the CASCADE (Cultivated Adult Stem Cell Alternative for Damaged tissuE) approach
- Luc SENSEBÉ, Tours, France
"Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells: entities for tissue repair"
- Hubert SCHREZENMEIER, Ulm, Germany
"Migratory potential of MSC"
- Karin TARTE, Rennes, France
"MSC interaction with immune system and inflammation"
- Rosaria GIORDANO, Milan, Italy
"GMP production of MSC for clinical purposes"
Negative pressure therapy (NPT)
- Franco BASSETTO, Padova, Italy
"Histological evidences of the effectiveness of negative pressure therapy"
- Malin MALMSJÖ, Lund, Sweden
"Negative pressure wound therapy using gauze and foam: an in detail study of the effects on the wound bed including micro- and macro-deformation, tissue ingrowth and wound bed histology"
- Marco ROMANELLI, Pisa, Italy
"Evidence based medicine analysis of literature on NPT"
- Jan APELQVIST, Malmö, Sweden
"Medico-econimical datas concerning NPT"
- Jean-Charles KERIHUEL, Paris, France
- Luc TEOT, Montpellier, France
"Results of the STIC-TPN French Ministry of Health multicentric trial"

Young Investigators, session 4
Selected Abstracts, session 4

19:30-24:00 Gala dinner

Friday August 28th 2009

9:00-10:30
Central and peripheric nervous system repair
- Piotr TOPILKO, Paris, France
"Nerve roots are myelinated by oligodendrocytes in the absence of Schwann cells or peripheral myelin"
- Steve S. SCHERER, Philadelphia, PA, USA
"How Schwann cells promote axonal regeneration"
- Robert A. OUVRIER, Sydney, Australia
"Axonal degeneration and regeneration in childhood"

11:00-12:30 Parallel sessions
Mechanical and engineering aspects of wound healing
- Boris HINZ, Toronto, Canada
"Myofibroblasts contract in a lock-step mechanism"
- Véronique MOULIN, Québec, Canada
"Understanding hypertrophic scarring phenomena using the tissue engineering methods"
- Allison J. COWIN, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
"Implications of tetraspanin CD151 and the actin cytoskeleton for wound healing"

Optimizing negative pressure wound therapy: a review of recent evidence-based advancements, Prospera symposium

- Cindy Ahearn, Dallas, Texas, USA
"Intermittent NPWT and Lower Negative Pressures – Exploring the Disparity between Science and Current Practice:  A Review of the Literature"
- Malin Malmsjo, Lund, Sweden
"Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Using gauze and Foam: An in Detail Study of the Effects on the Wound Bed Including Micro- and Macro-deformation, Tissue Ingrowth and Wound Bed Histology"
- Ola Borquist, Lund, Sweden
"Effects of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy on Regional Blood Flow, Wound Contraction and Fluid Removal – Examining Low Pressure Levels, Intermittent and Variable Pressure Therapy"
- Cindy Ahearn, Dallas, Texas, USA
"Delivering on the Potential of Intermittent/Variable Pressure Therapy"

Selected Abstracts, sessions 5, 6 and 7


Excursion tour and free evening

Saturday August 29th 2009

9:00-10:30
Regeneration of skin defects
- Paul MARTIN, Bristol, UK
"Inflammation and regeneration"
- Ken MUNEOKA, New Orleans, LA, USA
"Digit tip regeneration in mammals"
- Kazuo KISHI, Tokyo, Japan
"Analysis of cutaneous regeneration in fetal mice by micro array analysis and siRNA"

11:00-12:30 Parallel sessions
Diabetes impaired healing: from bench to bedside (ETRS/EWMA session)
- Sylvie MEAUME, Paris, France
"Differential diagnosis of impaired healing conditions"
- Sabine EMING, Cologne, Germany
"Molecular basis of diabetes impaired healing"
- David THOMAS, Cardiff, UK
"The role of bacteria in chronic wounds associated with diabetes mellitus"
- Jan APELQVIST, Malmö, Sweden
"Treatment of the diabetic foot: best practice and future directions"
Kidney repair processes
- Tim D. HEWITSON, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
"Repair and fibrosis – the Jekyll and Hyde of chronic kidney disease"
- Fabiola TERZI, Paris, France
"EGFR: a major player at the crossroads leading to renal deterioration"
- Christos CHATZIANTONIOU, Paris, France
"Novel insights in the mechanisms controlling progression/regression of chronic renal disease"
New biomaterials in human health and tissue engineering
- Christophe EGLES, Boston, MA, USA
"Tissue-engineered models of human skin for the development of new strategies to enhance cutaneous wound-healing"
- Guy DACULSI, Nantes, France
"Biphasic calcium phosphates concept: properties clinical applications and future development in bone tissue engineering"
- Michel VERT, Montpellier, France
"Bioresorbable polymers in surgery: interests and limits"
Honey as a topical treatment for wounds
- Rose A. COOPER, Cardiff, UK
- Bernard DESCOTTES, Limoges, France
- Ghislaine PAUTARD, Limoges, France

Selected Abstracts, session 8
Sponsored Symposia

14:30-16:00
Ulcers and chronic wounds, mechanisms, treatments
- Dorothy FOGERTY, Nashville, TN, USA
"Epidemiology and risk factors for pressure ulcers"
- Marco ROMANELLI, Pisa, Italy
"Wound diagnostic and measurement tools in chronic wounds"
- Robert S. KIRSNER, Miami, FL, USA

16:00-16:30 Awards and closing remarks