The meeting was held in Barcelona from 19 to 21 October and brought together leading figures from academia and industry in the material engineering sector. Among the invited speakers was researcher Roman Pérez, director of the Bioengineering Institute of Technology (BIT) of UIC Barcelona, who gave a presentation on the importance of biomaterials in tissue regeneration and its therapeutic application.

Under the heading ‘Therapeutic Biomaterials for Stimulating Tissue Regeneration’, Roman Pérez demonstrated how ‘tissue engineering scaffolds have played a decisive role in the repairing and regeneration of a wide range of tissues, including bone.’ ‘Unlike conventional scaffolds, therapeutic scaffolds are very promising as they use a variety of biological actions that favour and trigger cells, especially stem cells, to perform relevant therapeutic functions,’ Pérez explained.

During his presentation, the director of UIC Barcelona's degree in Bioengineering highlighted the most relevant designs of therapeutic scaffolds that trigger cellular functions that benefit bone repair and regeneration. 

The study of biomaterials that contribute to tissue regeneration is one of the main lines of research of the BIT research group. Their other areas of research focus on the study of biomolecules and cell distribution systems, cell therapy, and the search for new dental materials to improve dental implants, among others.

The 4th International Conference on Materials: Advanced and Emerging Materials is driven by the prestigious scientific journal Materials and after holding the previous three editions online, this year has brought all participants together on-site in the city of Barcelona, where they have shared knowledge and discussed the present and future of material engineering.