Thematic Working Interest Groups (TWIGs)
TWIGs Organizational Meetings Schedule
The TWIGs Organizational Meetings schedule will be provided as we approach the conference in December.
All registrants of the conference are encouraged to attend the TWIGs Organizational Meetings.
The objectives of the TWIGs are:
- to give all members of TERMIS-AM an opportunity to participate more directly in the life of the society
- to provide support for programming in specific domains – this is important as the society grows in numbers of members and breadth of topics
- to provide an opportunity to learn the workings of a professional society with the goal of readying talented, motivated individuals for leadership roles in TERMIS-AM and TERMIS Global
- to address new and emerging areas impacting tissue engineering and provide a platform to introduce these areas into our meeting
The list of TWIGs and their respective officers.
Biofabrication & Bioreactors
Pedro Costa, Chair
Vice-Chair
George Christ, Secretary/Treasurer
Cardiovascular/Angiogenesis/Blood
Chris Bashur, Chair
Ngan Huang, Vice-Chair
Jade Tang, Secretary
Annelie Roosens, SYIS
Commercialization & Regulation
Suzy Tabbaa, Chair
Vice-Chair
Secretary
Dental & Craniofacial
Pamela Yelick, Chair
Vice-Chair
Samer Zaky, Secretary
Elizabeth Smith, SYIS Representative
Fatima Syed Picard, Communications
Imaging and Assessment
Alyssa Appel, Chair
Mrignayani Kotecha, Vice-Chair
Musculoskeletal
Lisa Larkin, Chair
Riccardo Gottardi, Vice-Chair
Lucas Olson, Treasurer
SYIS Rep: Olga Wroblewski
Neural & Spine
Adele Doyle & Stephanie Seidlits, Co-Chairs
Ophthalmologic
Vacant, Chair
Respiratory, Urologic & Gastrointestinal
Andreas Kaasi, Chair
Riccardo Gottardi, Vice-Chair
Anirudha Singh, Secretary
Soheila Ai Akbari Ghavimi & William Oalley Water, SYIS
Scaffolds, Matrices, and Biomaterials
Chair: Madhu Dhar
Vice Chair: Jenny Robinson
Secretary: Jon Grasman
SYIS representatives: Marlon Dias and Claudia Sanhueza
Skin, Wound Healing, and Inflammation
Scott Sell, Chair
Anesh Prasai, Vice-Chair
Stem Cells & Cell Therapies & Developmental Biology and Cell Signaling
Monica Laronda, Chair
Vice-Chair
Susan Thibeault, Secretary