On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to invite you to take part in the international conference of Bioprinting and Biofabrication in Bordeaux (3B’09) that will be held in Bordeaux (France) on the 6th, 7th and 8th of July, 2009.

The general objective of the conference is to promote international collaboration in the fields of bioprinting and tissue engineering as well as to explore new fields that would help in developing Bioprinting and biofabrication either for regenerative medicine or more fundamental studies in biology.

3B’09 conference will highlight:

• the latest developments in bioprinting technologies (inkjet printing, bioplotting, biological laser printing, ...);
• the methodologies for designing, modeling and biomechanically evaluating 3D biostructures;
• the state-of-the-art and future of biomatrices suitable for bioprinting and biofabrication;
• the potentiality offered by combining bioprinting processes with other biofabrication and rapid prototyping methods;
• the perspectives of using developmental biology approaches in tissue engineering and vice-versa.

We would like to strongly encourage you to submit your abstracts and to attend in order to share your achievements in the fields of bioprinting, biofabrication and tissue engineering.

The submission of abstracts for oral presentations is now closed (deadline was 15 May 2009).

You will find continuously updated information on the 3B’09 conference at the web site: http://www.teal.u-bordeaux2.fr/3B09/
In addition to the technical aspects of the program, our website provides you with tourist information for the city of Bordeaux, a city that has been recently recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux!