ASBTE Annual Meeting 16-18 April 2023, Christchurch

The 28th ASBTE Annual Conference was held at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre in Christchurch (New Zealand) from 16 to 18 April 2023. With more than 220 local and international delegates, including >50% students, it was an exciting 3 days with world-class presentations and social networking sessions. The conference had representations from >10 countries, 4 plenary talks, 13 keynote talks, 100 oral presentations and 80 poster presentations.

The organizing committee would like to thank the generous sponsors and exhibitors who supported the conference and helped to make it at successful and enjoyable as possible, The University of Sydney – School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Nano Institute, BioInx, Cellink, AXT, Readily3D, APL Bioengineering, NETZSCH, Rousselot Biomedical, RSC Biomaterials Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Biofabrication, University of Melbourne – Graeme Clark Institute.

The conference kicked off with a very well attended early career research and development workshop, with thanks to Richard Tan and Rachael Wood for organising a great session. This was followed by a packed program of oral and poster presentations, addressing recent research developments in biomaterials, nanotechnology, drug delivery, biomimetic models, tissue engineering, stem cells, biointerfaces, immunomodulatory biomaterials, advanced imaging, diagnostics, biosensors and mechanobiology. We also had a special session focusing on the collaborative effort between Australasia and South Korea, special thanks to our partners from the Korean Biomaterials Society.

Congratulations to all the presenters on the excellent quality of the talks and poster presentations, especially to the very many students and early career researchers. The judges had a difficult task to select winners of presentation awards, thank you to our judges!

The award winners were:

Best ECR oral presentation – Kieran Lau

Best student oral presentation – Tiffany Goh

Best young investigator poster presentation - Hui Xin Tan and Leila Hollis

Best rapid-fire presentation – Anna Trengove

ASBTE 2023 Annual Conference Organising Committee

Khoon Lim, Lyn Wise, Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina, Vipul Agarwar, Tim Woodfield, Simon Hinkley, Rachael Wood, Anna Waterhouse