Next-Generation Biomaterials for Bone & Periodontal Regeneration

Dr Richard J. Miron is currently Visiting Faculty in the Department of Periodontology at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where he completed his PhD studies. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and lectures internationally on many topics relating to growth factors, bone biomaterials, and guided bone regeneration. Dr Miron has been awarded many top international prizes in regenerative dentistry and implant dentistry, including the ITI André Schroeder Research Prize, the International Association for Dental Research Young Investigator of the Year award in the field of implant dentistry, and the American Academy of Implant Dentistry Young Investigator grant award. He has completed postdoctoral research fellowships in Switzerland, Canada, China, Spain, and the United States.Dr Yufeng Zhang is the Luojiashan Distinguished Professor and chief physician at the Wuhan University Medical and Dental School in Wuhan, China. He completed a two-year peri-implant bone biology research fellowship at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and in 2010 he completed an ITI scholar position at the University of Bern in Switzerland. His research is primarily engaged in the _ eld of implanted biomaterials used for alveolar bone and periodontal regeneration. Dr Zhang was one of the _ rst researchers to propose the concept of gene-activated tissue engineering scaffolds, developing a scaffold-gene integration system that has its own biologic activity in vivo due to the autocrine growth factor. He has since been responsible for the development of several biomaterials with numerous industrial partners.