ASBTE Annual Meeting 2025 - 22-24 April 2025, Brisbane

At the 2025 ASBTE Annual Meeting in Brisbane, we had over 250 attendees, with more than 104 oral presentations and 83 posters, and fantastic plenary talks by Chwee Teck Lim, Nuria Monserrat, Chun-Xia Zhao, and Nicholas Voelcker. With sessions chaired and organised by EMCR and senior leaders alike, our attendees discussed advances in biofabrication, synthetic and natural biomaterials, tissue engineering, biointerfaces, commercial and clinical translation (with the TGA!), immunomodulation,  mechanobiology, cancer, organoids, stem cells, and cell therapies. We would like to thank our presenters at our industry-facing EMCR workshop (Elena De Juan Pardo, Petra Kluger, Simon Cool, Rebecca Griffiths, Rupert Eckert, Monica Russel), and congratulate the winners of conference presentation awards, listed below.

Best Student Poster Presentation: Asawari Parulekar (UQ)

Best Early Career Researcher Poster Presentation: Anna Jaeschke (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Best Student Rapid Fire Presentation: Minne Dekker (QUT)

Best Early Career Researcher Oral Presentation: Timothy Mitchell (University of Sydney)

Best Student Oral Presentation: Zachary Och (UNSW)

Importantly, we would like to thank our fantastic academic organising committee:

Conference Chairs: Yi-Chin Toh, Nathalie Bock, Mark Allenby

Academic Program: Ferry Melchels, Khoon Lim, and Max Yavitt

EMCR Program: Elena De Juan Pardo, Yinghong Zhou

Exhibition and Sponsorship: Serena Duchi

Communications: Pingping Han

Finances: Lan Xiao

Program: Aswathi Gopalakrishnan

Student helpers and volunteers: Dr Carmaine Onofrillo,  Jessica Marsh, Jie Yi Kok