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Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society

Abbreviation	TERMIS
Formation	2005
Type	INGO 503(c)(3)[1]
Purpose	medical research
Region served	worldwide
Official language	english
President	Geoff Richards
Website	http://www.termis.org/

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society is an international learned society.^[1]

Regenerative medicine involves processes of replacing, engineering or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function. A major technology of regenerative medicine is tissue engineering,^[2] which has variously been defined as "an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and the life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function",^[2] or "the creation of new tissue by the deliberate and controlled stimulation of selected target cells through a systematic combination of molecular and mechanical signals".^[3]

History

Tissue engineering emerged during the 1990s as a potentially powerful option for regenerating tissue and research initiatives were established in various cities in the USA and in European countries including the UK, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, and also in Japan. Soon fledgling societies were formed in these countries in order to represent these new sciences, notably the European Tissue Engineering Society (ETES) and, in the USA, the Tissue Engineering Society (TES), soon to become the Tissue Engineering Society international (TESi) and the Regenerative Medicine Society (RMS).

Because of the overlap between the activities of these societies and the increasing globalization of science and medicine, considerations of a merger between TESI and ETES and RMS were initiated in 2004 and agreement was reached during 2005 about the formation of the consolidated society, the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS). Election of officers for TERMIS took place in September 2005, and the by-laws were approved by the Board.

Rapid progress in the organization of TERMIS took place during late 2005 and 2006. The SYIS, Student and Young Investigator Section was established in January 2006, website and newsletter launched and membership dues procedures put in place. Very importantly, a contract was signed between TERMIS and the publisher Mary Ann Liebert which designated the journal Tissue Engineering, Parts A, B and C as the official journal of TERMIS with free on-line access for the membership.

Structure and governance

It was determined that each Chapter would have its own Council, the overall activities being determined by the Governing Board, on which each Council was represented, and an Executive Committee.

Fellows

Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (FTERM) recipients are:

Society chapters

At the beginning of the Society, it was agreed that there would be Continental Chapters of TERMIS, initially TERMIS-North America (TERMIS-NA) and TERMIS-Europe (TERMIS-EU), to be joined at the time of the major Shanghai conference in October 2005 by TERMIS-Asia Pacific (TERMIS-AP). It was subsequently agreed that the remit of TERMIS-North America should be expanded to incorporate activity in South America, the chapter becoming TERMIS-Americas (TERMS-AM) officially in 2012.

TERMIS conferences

It was agreed that there would be a World Congress every three years, with each Chapter organizing its own conference in the intervening two years.

TERMIS World Conferences

• 2006 – Pittsburgh, PA, USA. First world congress


• 2009 – Seoul, South Korea
  


• 2012 – Vienna, Austria
  


• 2015 – Boston, MA, USA


• 2018 – Kyoto, Japan
  

TERMIS-AP Conferences

• 2007 – Tokyo, Japan, Meeting Chair: Dr. Teruo Okano


• 2008 – Taipei, Taiwan, Meeting Chairs: Professor Ging-Ho Hsiue and Professor Sheng-Mou Hou


• 2010 – Sydney, Australia, Meeting Chair: Prof. Geoffrey McKellar


• 2011 – Singapore, Meeting Chair: Prof. James Goh


• 2013 – Wuzhen, China, Meeting Chairs: Dr. Yilin Cao and Dr. Wei Liu


• 2014 – Daegu, South Korea, Meeting Chairs: Prof. Jin Ho Lee and Byung-hyun Min


• 2016 – Tamsui, Taipei, Meeting Chairs: Ming-Tau Sheu and Shih-Chieh Hung, Conference Program Chair: Yu-Chen Hu


• 2017 – Nantong, China, Meeting Chairs: Xiaosong Gu, Xiaobing Fu and Yilin Cao


• 2019 (upcoming conference) – Brisbane, Australia, Meeting Chair: Prof. Yin Xiao


• 2020 (upcoming conference) – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Meeting Chairs: Dr. Thamil Selvee Ramasamy, Dr. Angela Ng Min Hwei and Dr. Badrul Hisham Yahaya

TERMIS – EU Conferences

• 2006 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Meeting Chair: Dr. Gerjo van Osch


• 2007 – London, United Kingdom, Meeting Chair: Prof: Robert Brown


• 2008 – Porto, Portugal, Meeting Chair: Prof. Rui Reis


• 2010 – Galway, Ireland, Meeting Chair: Dr. Abhay Pandit


• 2011 – Granada, Spain, Meeting Chair: Dr. Antonio Campos


• 2013 – Istanbul, Turkey, Meeting Chair: Erhan Piskin


• 2014 – Genova, Italy, Meeting Chair: Prof. Ranieri Cancedda and Dr. Claudio Migliaresi


• 2016 – Uppsala, Sweden, Meeting Chair: Jöns Hilborn and May Griffith


• 2017 – Davos, Switzerland, Meeting Chair: Prof R Geoff Richards, Program Chair: Prof Mauro Alini


• 2019 (upcoming conference) – Rhodes, Greece, Meeting Chair: Dr. Dimitrios Zeugolis, Program Chair: Dr. Maria Chatzinikolaidou


• 2020 (upcoming conference) – Manchester, United Kingdom, Meeting Chairs: Dr. Sue Kimber & Dr. Sarah Cartmell, Program Chair: Dr. Stephen Richardson

TERMIS – AM Conferences

• 2007 – Toronto, ON, Canada, Meeting Chair: Dr. Michael Sefton and Dr. Molly Shoichet


• 2008 – San Diego, California, Meeting Chair: Dr. Anthony Ratcliffe, Dr. Robert Sah and Dr. Bill Tawil


• 2010 – Orlando, Florida, Meeting Chair: Dr. Anthony Atala


• 2011 – Houston, Texas, Meeting Chair: Dr. Antonios Mikos


• 2013 – Atlanta, Georgia, Conference Chair: Robert Guldberg, Conference Program Chair: Todd McDevitt


• 2014 – Washington, DC, Conference Chair: John Fisher, Conference Program Chair: Jennifer Elisseeff


• 2016 – San Diego, California, Meeting Chair: Dr. Anthony Ratcliffe, Dr. Robert Sah and Dr. Bill Tawil


• 2017 – Charlotte, North Carolina, Meeting Chair: Dr. Anthony Atala, Program Chairs: Dr. Shay Soker and Dr. James Yoo


• 2019 (upcoming conference) – Orlando, FL, Meeting Chairs: Dr. Cherie Stabler and Dr. Diego Mantovani

TERMIS Awards

Each TERMIS chapter has defined awards to recognize outstanding scientists and their contributions within the community.

TERMIS – AP

• The Excellence Achievement Award has been established to recognize a researcher in the Asia-Pacific region who has made continuous and landmark contributions to the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine field.


• The Outstanding Scientist Award has been established to recognize a mid-career researcher in the Asia-Pacific region who has made significant contributions to the TERM field.


• The Young Scholar Award has been established to recognize a young researcher in the Asia-Pacific region who has made significant and consistent achievements in the TERM field, showing a clear evidence of their potential to excel.


• The Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Best TERM Paper Award has been established to recognize a student researcher (undergraduate/graduate/postdoc) in the Asia-Pacific region who has achieved outstanding research accomplishments in the TERM field.


• The TERMIS-AP Innovation Team Award has been established to recognize a team of researchers in the Asia-Pacific region. It aims to recognize successful applications of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine leading to the development of relevant products/therapies/technologies which will ultimately benefit the patients.

Award recipients

SYIS

The Student and Young Investigator Section of TERMIS (TERMIS-SYIS) brings together undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and young investigators in industry and academia related to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. It follows the organizational and working pattern of TERMIS.

See also

• Tissue engineering


• Regenerative medicine

References

External links

• TERMIS homepage


• Tissue Engineering Journal