Conference Description:

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the 1st International Online Conference on Functional Biomaterials (IOCFB2024). The conference is organized by the MDPI open access Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983, Impact Factor 4.8) and will be held online from 10 to 12 July 2024.

The conference will provide an opportunity for scientists in the field to present their latest research and to participate in discussions about implantable biomaterials development more widely. The main themes of the conference are:

Dental Biomaterials;
Bone Biomaterials;
Antibacterial Biomaterials;
Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering;
Biomaterials for Drug Delivery;
Biomaterials for Diagnostics, Therapy and Healthcare;
Bio-fabricated and 3D Printed Biomaterials.

The conference will provide new opportunities for biomaterials researchers to exchange ideas and to expand scientific horizons of the field. The conference will be organised to make it easier for researchers from disparate backgrounds to come together and to share their specialist perspectives in new ways, augmenting the trans-disciplinarity of the field. With a greater sharing of new strategies to overcome bottlenecks and the highlighting of nascent approaches, new routes for the creation of clinical biomaterials will be promoted. Ultimately, it is the free sharing of ideas that will secure a global-scale effort for the field, thereby underpinning its growing role as a key modality for medical interventions.

With an open forum concept, the conference will be a platform for both technically conventional and unconventional approaches. At the organisational level, its virtual nature will promote interactions free of geographic and travel constraints and so place delegates in the same interactive ‘space’ with the possible creation of new research community linkages and, with this, new scientific directions for the future.

During the conference, there will be two types of live broadcasts: oral presentations and poster presentations. Through the Zoom platform, participants have the opportunity to engage in interactive sessions, freely share comments and engage in discussions with fellow researchers. Arguably, a virtual conference is also less physically demanding, allowing full focus on the material presented throughout the conference period without the risk of low audience engagement, as can happen sometimes at the start and end of in-person conferences when delagates may be constrained by travel arrangements.

All accepted abstracts will be available online in open access form on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Pankaj Vadgama, MB BS, PhD, FRCPath, FRSC, FInstP, FIMMM, FRSB
School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK