This year’s conference will take place in a hybrid format and as usual unite “leading experts, researchers and innovators with academic and industrial backgrounds from around the globe to share cutting-edge research and network with industry leaders” in the fields of materials science and technology.

Within this inspiring setting, InterLynk Coordinator Prof. João Mano from the University of Aveiro will be honored with the FEMS European Materials Gold Medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field (read here our coverage). His plenary talk on “Biomaterials from human origin,” scheduled for Sep. 4th at 9.10 am, perfectly aligns with InterLynk's focus. In InterLynk, we harness human-based platelet lysates to develop highly tailored multi-material scaffolds with unprecedented biofunctionality and cell-recruiting capacities.

In addition to the plenary lecture, Prof. Mano is co-organizing a symposium entitled “Biomaterials for Advanced Biomedical Applications”, which will delve into diverse biomaterials, including natural and synthetic polymers, for a range of biomedical applications. It will focus on the design of structural and functional properties through various chemistries, architectures, and crosslinking approaches. The symposium will cover biodegradable implants, hydrogels, scaffolds, and drug delivery systems, as well as the use of biopolymers to mimic human tissues and address tissue-specific needs.

Prof. Lorenzo Moroni from the University of Maastricht, a co-scientist in the InterLynk project, will also be participating as a symposium co-organizer. He will provide profound insights into production technologies by co-organizing a symposium titled “Additive Manufacturing of Biomaterials and Biofabrication”. This symposium will aim to examine the recent advancements in biomaterials for AM technologies, focusing on their potential for fabricating personalized implants, scaffolds, biosensors, drug delivery devices, and medical devices.

In InterLynk we are exploring new biomaterials for multi-tissue regeneration aiming to design and manufacture medical scaffolds with enhanced properties.

The FEMS EUROMAT congress will provide an invaluable platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration, offering significant benefits to the Interlynk project in its pursuit of advanced biomaterials and multi-tissue regeneration.