Conferences
1st AW&TRS Conference Report
The first Australasian Wound & Tissue Repair Society Conference was held in Darwin, May 6th-7th 2008 and was attended by 65 delegates whose backgrounds spanned research scientists, clinicians, nurses and industry. The conference dinner was followed by a full day of presentation from both international and leading Australian Wound and Tissue Repair researchers and was well supported by excellent poster presentations. For all those who attended these meetings we thank you for your support, and hope you enjoyed them as much as we, the organising committee did. The organising committe is already busy thinking about the next conference and we will keep you updated with its venue very soon.
We look forward to seeing you at the 2nd AW&TRS Conference!!
Assoc Prof Allison Cowin, President AW&TRS
Conference Award Recipients
The Tissue Therapies Travel Award winners were - James Broadbent QUT, Kelly Veale CHBRI and Zlatko Kopecki WCHRI. The BIORAD Early Investigator Best Poster award went to Walter Chan WCHRI. The BIORAD Early Investigator Best Oral Presentation award went to Erin Rayment QUT and the ConvaTec prize for the best overall presentation went to Andrew Holland CHBRI. AW&TRS is very grateful to the sponsors of these awards and would like to acknowledge the importance of these awards in facilitating the attendance at the conference of young investigators and in recognising their research achievements.