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Volume No 19 - Supplement 1 January 2010

Abstracts of the Biomaterials-Africa 2009 meeting, Advancing Biomaterials in Africa, CSIR South Africa
20-22 September 2009

Oral Presentations

Posters

Oral Presentations

Plenary
Page 26: U Ripamonti, B van den Heever, LF Renton, PW Richter, L Kotze
Smart biomimetic matrices induce bone formation without the exogenous applications of soluble osteogenic molecular signals

Plenary
Page 38: T Shimizu
Cell sheet engineering for myocardial tissue repair

Plenary
Page 39: S Zhang
Designer Self-assembling Peptide Biological Materials

Page 1:  M Jurczyk, K Jurczyk, K Niespodziana, A Miklaszewski
Hybrid Ti-ceramic bionanomaterials for dental engineering

Page 2: J Jakubowicz
Deposition and properties of hydroxyapatite on flat and porous Ti

Page 3:  S Potgieter, K Land, L Kotze, R Sparrow
Microfluidic devices for biological applications

Page 4:  V Jacobs, A Patanaik, RD Anandjiwala
Electrospun chitosan nanofibre membranes for antimicrobial application: role of electrospinning processing parameters

Page 9:  M Ramezani, H Parhiz, A Hatefi
Peptide modified polyethylenimine as vector for gene delivery

Page 11:  S Govender, P Swart
A surfactant based approach to multi-functional, biocompatible polymer development

Page 12:  DG Reid, MJ Duer, G Jackson
Kidney stone composition by solid state NMR (SSNMR)

Page 15:  C Wetzel, N Ozkucur, J Schönfelder, TK Monsees, RHW Funk
Improvement of cell-adhesion in the medical-surface boundary layer

Page 16:  WA Germishuizen, L Venter, A Khosa, F Mudau, M Kabadi, A Schiermeier, DA Edwards, PB Fourie
Establishing a platform for spray drying inhalable vaccines in South Africa

Page 17:  C Eder, E Falkner, A Slawik, M Mickel, A Tuschel, M Ogon
Rapid assessment of biomaterials: the HET-CAM assay as screening tool for biomedical tissue engineering

Page 21:  NL Dlamini, XY Mbianda, Z Szucs, J Zeervaart
Synthesis and characterization of bisphosphonate conjugated carbon nanomaterials as potential treatment of secondary bone cancer

Page 28:  D Bezuidenhout, A Oosthuysen, P Human, C Weissenstein, P Zilla
Correlation of crosslink density with calcification of diamine-extended glutaraldehyde-fixed bioprosthetic heart-valve materials

Page 29:  CM Elvin, AG Brownlee, SJ Danon, GA Edwards, NE Liyou, JAM Ramshaw, L Sando, T Vuocolo, JA Werkmeister
Photochemically crosslinked proteins as new medical materials

Page 32: M Gonsior, T Borowski, E Czarnowska, M Sanak, R Kustosz, M Ossowski, T Wierzchon 
Thrombogenicity of Ti(N,C,O) diffusive coating layers developed on Titanium alloy as the blood contact surface

Page 33:  S Rimpelova, N Kasalkova, V Svorcik, T Ruml
Adhesion and growth of fibroblasts on artificial materials for tissue engineering

Page 34:  U Ripamonti
Self-inducing geometric cues and bone: formation by autoinduction

Page 36: D Jhurry, A Bhaw-Luximon, V Lochee, B Ancharaz, A Veeren, R Jeetah
Novel self-assembled block copolymers for drug delivery

Page 37: MK Marei, MM Saad, RM El-Backly, MA Alkhodary, RA Bly, DJ Cohen, J Chen, MM Fata, WO Soboyejo, M Nageeb, A Rashad, DK Ahmed, RH Abd El-Aty
Bone engineering around laser grooved/RGD-coated titanium surfaces

Posters

Page 5:  MJ Duer, MS Ironside, DG Reid, M Schoppet, CM Shanahan
Glycosaminoglycans and lipids in vascular calcification: new insights into mineralogenesis from NMR spectroscopy

Page 6:  K Maduray, AE Karsten
Liposomes as a drug delivery system in photodynamic therapy for colon cancer treatment

Page 7:  S Garny, I Gerber, J Jordaan
Biocompatibility of dendrispheres

Page 8:  A Dehshahri, RK Oskuee, WT Shier, M Ramezani
Targeted plasmid DNA delivery by galactosylated alkyl-oligoamine derivatives of PEI

Page 10:  DG Reid, MT Neary, MJ Mason, T Friščić, MJ Duer, M Cusack
Calcium phosphate mineralization in phosphatic brachiopods, and vertebrates

Page 13:  CM Obele O Ogbobe
Synthesis of  1, 3-propanediol from Sorghum                   

Page 14:   A Singh, AE Karsten, RM Smith, G van Niekerk
Determination of the optical properties of rat tissue

Page 18:  AE Karsten, A Singh, I Ndhundhuma
Optical coherence tomography as a research tool for biomaterials

Page 19:  MS Azimi, ZT Birgani, A Darvish­, SS Shafiei, MS Hashjin
Ca/Al layered double hydroxides hydrothermally modified for biomaterials applications

Page 20:  IM Ndhundhuma
Application of low level laser on skin cell lines

Page 22:  R Jakubová, A Míčková, M Buzgo, M Plencner, E Prosecká, E Filová, E Amler
Simple drug delivery system based on PRP and PCL nanofibres

Page 23: VT Windvoel, MB Mbanjwa, K Land
Contact angle studies on PDMS surfaces fouled by bovine serum albumin

Page 24:  AK Mishra, SB Mishra, BB Mamba, RW Krause
Synthesis of silicon carbide nanowires from a hybrid of amorphous biopolymer and sol-gel derived silica

Page 25:  JE Smit, A Singh, I Tshoke, AF Grobler, RW Sparrow
Phantom skin absorption coefficients from spectrophotometric and integrating sphere methods: preliminary comparative results

Page 27:  LF Renton, RB Parakl, PW Richter, L Kotze, U Ripamonti
Comparison of osteoinduction in biphasic hydroxyapatite implanted in two different animal models

Page 30:  LG Molawa, D Brady, J Jordaan
Determining the applicability of the SphereZymes® immobilised protease for the biocatalysis of protein

Page 31:  K Mathiba, B Petja, C Simpson, J Jordaan, D Brady
Scaled manufacture of self-immobilised Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase using the SphereZymesTM technology

Page 35: U Ripamonti LF Renton R Parak, L Kotze, PW Richter
Biomimetism, smart biomimetic matrices and the induction of bone formation

Page 40: CM Obele, O Ogbobe
Synthesis of bio-based polyester from sorghum-derived 1,3-propanediol

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