Topic: 1).Challenges in Bone Regeneration?
            2) Bone regeneration: from intramembraneous to endochondral pathway?
Speaker: Prof. John Janse and A. P. Fang Yang, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Time: 15:00 p.m., Oct. 28, 2016
Venue: Conference Room 101, Building B12, University Town Campus
Biography:
1) J.A. (John) Jansen was born July 14, 1953 in Arnhem (the Netherlands). He studied Dentistry at Radboud University Nijmegen and graduated in 1977. In the same year he started a part-time dental practice in Maassluis, the Netherlands. From 1978-1984, John Jansen performed, as a volunteer, a PhD research project at the Department of Dental Materials (Head: Prof. F.C.M. Driessens) at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research project dealt with the adhesion of epithelial cells to dental implant materials.
Since 1985, Jansen’s investigations deal with wound healing phenomena around devices, which have been implanted through the skin (percutaneous implants) or mucosa (in the mouth: permucosal implants). In addition, studies were performed to the bone reaction to various dental implant materials. Prof. Jansen worked as Assistant Professor in Amsterdam and Leiden till 1991. Subsequently, he transferred to the Department of Oral Function and Prosthetic Dentistry (Chairman: Prof. W. Kalk) at Radboud University Nijmegen as Associate Professor of Biomaterials and Implantology. As head of the Laboratory of Biomaterials he was responsible for the teaching curriculum of dental biomaterials and he was supervising a research program entitled “Wound healing phenomena around percutaneous and permucosal implants”. In April 1996, John Jansen was appointed Full Professor of Biomaterials and Experimental Implantology and Experimental Periodontology of the Department Periodontology and Biomaterials. Since January 2001, he is Chair of this Department.
In April 1992, on the recommendation of the Netherlands Technology Foundation (STW), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded him a PIONIER-grant (Personal Support for Research Groups with New Ideas for Excellent Research, f 2,000,000.-). From July-December 2002, he was appointed as NSF International Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Visiting Professor at the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University, Houston, USA. In February 2003, the Netherlands Technology Foundation (STW) appointed him Simon Stevin “Master”, the most prestigious technology award in the Netherlands. In 2004, the Society for Biomaterials awarded him with the Clemson Award for Outstanding Contributions to the literature and he was elected as Fellow Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) of the Society. In the same year he was also elected as Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). In April 2008, he was elected as full member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Section Medicine). In June 2012, he received the FEDERA award of the Federation of Dutch Medical Scientific Societies for his efforts in Regenerative Medicine. In 2014, he was awarded Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, received the Distinguished Scientist award – Isaac Schour Memorial Award from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and was elected as Member Academia Europaea (MAE; section Physiology & Medicine).
He has contributed to over 580 publications and h-index: 68. Jansen is the owner of seven patents and editorial board member/editor of seven international scientific journals. Currently, 20 PhD-students work under his supervision.
2)Dr. Fang Yang is a biomaterial scientist and interested in the development and evaluation of novel biomaterials-based approaches for tissue regeneration and the controlled delivery of drugs or growth factors. She obtained her PhD degree from National University of Singapore in 2005 under supervision of Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna. After that she joined Prof. John Jansen’s group at Department of Biomaterials in Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands until now.
Her current research focuses on the development of nanofibers or nanoparticles as extracellular matrix with incorporation of therapeutic agents for bone and periodontal tissue regeneration. She is also interested in local drug delivery to prevent implant associated infections. Her expertise lies in biopolymers and biocomposites, electrospinning technique and biomaterials characterization (both physico-chemical and biological evaluation). She has published more than 50 journal articles and served as a peer reviewer for about 10 journals in the related field.