1. Clinical Aspects and Limitations of Vascular Grafts (Peter ZILLA, SA).- 2. Synthetic Materials for Vascular Scaffolds.- 3. Mechanical Testing of Vascular Grafts (Christian GRASL and Martin STOIBER, Heinz SCHIMA, AU).- 4. In vitro Testing of Engineered Vascular Grafts.- 5. In Vivo Testing and Animal Models for Vascular Grafts (Helga BERGMEISTER, AU, Bruno PODESSER, AU).- 6. Decellularized Vascular Grafts for VTE (Axel HAVERICH, Sotiris KOROSSIS, Andres HILFIKER, DE).- 7. Degradable and Non-degradable Vascular Scaffolds (Yadong WANG, William WAGNER, USA).- 8. In Vivo Vascular Tissue Engineering - Long-term Results (Beat WALPOTH, CH).- 9. Cell-Assembled Extracellular Matrix for Building Vascular Grafts (Nicolas L'HEUREUX, FR).- 10. Cell-based/Seeding of Vascular Grafts (David VORP, Justin Sol WEINBAUM, Darren G HASKETT, USA).- 11. Vascular Tissue Engineering: the role of 3-D printing (Ali KHADEMHOSSEINI, Yu Shrike ZHANG, USA).- 12. Autologous Mandril-based VTE (Joris ROTMANS, NL).- 13. The Role of Tropoelastin in VTE (Tony WEISS, AUS).- 14. Vascular Grafts made of Cell Sheets.- 15. Vascular Tissue Engineering: Pathology, Mechanisms, and Translational Implications (Carlijn BOUTEN, NL, Fred SCHOEN, USA).- 16. Models to study cardiovascular calcification relevant to tissue engineering (Elena AIKAWA, USA).- 17. The incorporation and release of bioactive molecules in Vascular Grafts (Deling KONG, CN).- 18. Functionalization/Coating of Vascular Grafts including cell surface interaction (Olivier FELIX, Gero DECHER, FR, Mitsuru AKASHI, JP).- 19. Clinical application of VTE for children (Toshi SHINOKA, Christopher BREUER, USA).- 20. Bioengineered Human Acellular Vessels (Laura NIKLASON, Jeffrey H. LAWSON, USA). schovat popis