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8-12 September 2008, Herceg Novi, Montenegro

YUCOMAT 2008: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Contact: Aleksandra Stojicic, Conference Secretary, Institute of Technical Sciences of the SASA, Knez Mihailova 35/IV, PO Box 377, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; tel: +381-11-2185-437; fax: +381-11-2185-263;

E-mail: yumrs@itn.sanu.ac.yu; Internet address: www.hercegnovi.com

11-13 September 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

SOCIETY FOR BIOMATERIALS: ADVANCING DISCOVERIES FROM THE LABORATORY TO THE CLINIC

Contact: Headquarters, 15000 Commerce Parkway, Suite C, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054, USA; tel: +1 856-439-0826; fax: +1-856-439-0525; E-mail: info@biomaterials.org

29-31 October 2008, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

9TH NEW JERSEY SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Contact: New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; tel: +1-732-445-0488; fax: +1-732-445-5006; E-mail: admin@njbiomaterials.org; Internet address: www.njbiomaterials.org

29 October-2 November 2008, San Diego, California, USA

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF IMPLANT DENTISTRY: 57TH ANNUAL MEETING

Contact: Max Moses, Director, Communications, AAID Headquarter, 211 East Chicago Avenue, Suite 750, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA; tel: +1-312-335-1550; E-mail: max@aaid.com

31 October-5 November 2008, Chicago, USA

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS

Contact: Public Relations, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, 444 East Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, USA; tel: +1-847-228-9900; E-mail: media@plasticsurgery.org

17-19 November 2008, Mannheim/Heidelberg, Germany

BIO-EUROPE 2008

Contact: Tom Voigt, EBD Group, tel: +1-760-930-0500; fax: +1-760-930-0520; E-mail: tvoigt@ebdgroup.com

3-6 December 2008, Singapore

ICBME 2008: 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Contact: Conference Secretariat, c/o Integrated Meetings Specialist Pte Ltd, Blk 998 Toa Payoh North 07-18/19, Singapore 318993; tel: +65-6356-4727; fax: +65-6356-7471; E-mail: icbme@inmeet.com.sg

14-17 January 2009, Porto, Portugal

BIODEVICES 2009: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ELECTRONICS AND DEVICES: part of BIOSTEC: International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

Contact: Secretariat, Avenue D Manuel I, 27A 2[degrees]esq, 2910-595 Setubal,Portugal; tel: +351-265-520-185; fax: +351-265-520-186; E-mail: secretariat@biodevices.org; Internet address: www.biodevices.org

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