Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society is an international learned society dedicated to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.[1]

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society

Abbreviation	TERMIS
Formation	2005
Type	INGO 503(c)(3)[1]
Purpose	medical research
Region served	worldwide
Official language	english
President	Geoff Richards
Website	http://www.termis.org/

Background

Regenerative medicine involves processes of replacing, engineering or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function. A major technology of regenerative medicine is tissue engineering,[2] which has variously been defined as "an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and the life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function", or "the creation of new tissue by the deliberate and controlled stimulation of selected target cells through a systematic combination of molecular and mechanical signals".[3]

History

Tissue engineering emerged during the 1990s as a potentially powerful option for regenerating tissue and research initiatives were established in various cities in the USA and in European countries including the UK, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, and also in Japan. Soon fledgling societies were formed in these countries in order to represent these new sciences, notably the European Tissue Engineering Society (ETES) and, in the USA, the Tissue Engineering Society (TES), soon to become the Tissue Engineering Society international (TESi) and the Regenerative Medicine Society (RMS).[4]

Because of the overlap between the activities of these societies and the increasing globalization of science and medicine, considerations of a merger between TESI and ETES and RMS were initiated in 2004 and agreement was reached during 2005 about the formation of the consolidated society, the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS).[5] Election of officers for TERMIS took place in September 2005, and the by-laws were approved by the Board.

Rapid progress in the organization of TERMIS took place during late 2005 and 2006. The SYIS, Student and Young Investigator Section was established in January 2006, website and newsletter launched and membership dues procedures put in place.

Structure and governance

It was determined that each Chapter would have its own Council, the overall activities being determined by the Governing Board, on which each Council was represented, and an Executive Committee.

Society chapters

At the beginning of the Society, it was agreed that there would be Continental Chapters of TERMIS, initially TERMIS-North America (TERMIS-NA) and TERMIS-Europe (TERMIS-EU), to be joined at the time of the major Shanghai conference in October 2005 by TERMIS-Asia Pacific (TERMIS-AP). It was subsequently agreed that the remit of TERMIS-North America should be expanded to incorporate activity in South America, the chapter becoming TERMIS-Americas (TERMS-AM) officially in 2012.

Student and Young Investigator Section

The Student and Young Investigator Section of TERMIS (TERMIS-SYIS) brings together undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and young investigators in industry and academia related to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. [6] It follows the organizational and working pattern of TERMIS.

Activities

Journal

Tissue Engineering

Language	English
Publication details
Publisher	Mary Ann Liebert on behalf of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4	Tissue Eng.
Links
Journal homepage

A contract was signed between TERMIS and the Mary Ann Liebert publisher which designated the journal Tissue Engineering, Parts A, B and C as the official journal of TERMIS with free on-line access for the membership.[7]

Conferences

It was agreed that there would be a World Congress every three years, with each Chapter organizing its own conference in the intervening two years.

Awards

Each TERMIS chapter has defined awards to recognize outstanding scientists and their contributions within the community.

TERMIS-AP

• The Excellence Achievement Award has been established to recognize a researcher in the Asia-Pacific region who has made continuous and landmark contributions to the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine field.
• The Outstanding Scientist Award has been established to recognize a mid-career researcher in the Asia-Pacific region who has made significant contributions to the TERM field.
• The Young Scholar Award has been established to recognize a young researcher in the Asia-Pacific region who has made significant and consistent achievements in the TERM field, showing a clear evidence of their potential to excel.
• The Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Best TERM Paper Award has been established to recognize a student researcher (undergraduate/graduate/postdoc) in the Asia-Pacific region who has achieved outstanding research accomplishments in the TERM field.
• The TERMIS-AP Innovation Team Award has been established to recognize a team of researchers in the Asia-Pacific region. It aims to recognize successful applications of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine leading to the development of relevant products/therapies/technologies which will ultimately benefit the patients.

TERMIS-EU

• The Career Achievement Award is aimed towards a recognition of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of TERM and have carried out most of their career in the TERMIS-EU geographical area.
• The Mid Terms Career Award has been established in 2020 to recognize individuals that are within 10–20 years after obtaining their PhD, with a successful research group and clear evidence of outstanding performance.
• The Robert Brown Early Career Principal Investigator Award recognizes individuals that are within 2–10 years after obtaining their PhD, with clear evidence of a growing profile.

Award recipients

TERMIS-AP

2016	Hai Bang Lee – Excellence Achievement Award Hsing-Wen Sung – Outstanding Scientist Award
2017	Yilin Cao – Excellence Achievement Award Wei Liu – Outstanding Scientist Award
2018	Teruo Okano - Excellence Achievement Award Yasuhiko Tabata - Outstanding Scientist Award

TERMIS-EU

2013	Clemens van Blitterswijk – Career Achievement Award Ranieri Cancedda – Contributions to the Literature Award Manuela Gomes – Young Scientist Award
2014	C. James Kirkpatrick – Career Achievement Award Katja Schenke-Layland – Young Scientist Award
2016	James B. Richardson – Clinical Translation Award Lorenzo Moroni – Young Scientist Award
2017	Rui L. Reis – Contributions to the Literature Award Jeroen Rouwkema – Robert Brown Early Career Principal Investigator Award
2019	David F. Williams – Chairs’ Life Achievement & Contribution Award Rui L. Reis – Career Achievement Award Liesbet Geris – Robert Brown Early Career Principal Investigator Award
2020	Graziella Pellegrini – Career Achievement Award Martin J. Stoddart - Mid Term Career Award Jeroen Leijten – Robert Brown Early Career Principal Investigator Award

TERMIS-AM

2010	Arnold I. Caplan – Lifetime Achievement Award Ali Khademhosseini – Young Investigator Award James Kretlow – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2011	Robert S. Langer – Lifetime Achievement Award David J. Mooney – Senior Scientist Award F. Kurtis Kasper – Young Investigator Award Jessica A. DeQuach – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2012	Alan J. Russell – Lifetime Achievement Award Stephen F. Badylak – Senior Scientist Award Karen L. Christman – Young Investigator Award Kacey G. Marra – Educational Award Brian M. Sicari – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award Andrew J. Marshall – Innovation/Commercialization Award
2013	Robert M. Nerem – Lifetime Achievement Award William R. Wagner – Senior Scientist Award Alison P. McGuigan – Young Investigator Award Rameshwar R. Rao – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2014	Anthony Atala – Lifetime Achievement Award Molly Shoichet – Senior Scientist Award Warren Grayson – Young Investigator Award Bryan Brown – Educational Award Laura Bracaglia – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2015	Antonios G. Mikos – Lifetime Achievement Award Robert T. Tranquillo – Senior Scientist Award Eric M. Brey – Educational Award Lauren D. Black III – Young Investigator Award Timothy J. Keane Jr. – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2016	Michael Sefton – Lifetime Achievement Award Ali Khademhosseini – Senior Scientist Award Johnna Temenoff – Educational Award Jordan Green – Young Investigator Award Jenna Dziki – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2017	Joseph P. Vacanti – Lifetime Achievement Award John P. Fisher – Senior Scientist Award Lauren Black – Educational Award Ngan F. Huang – Young Investigator Award Mahesh Devarasetty – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2018	Karen Christman - Senior Scientist Award Kurt Kasper - Educational Award Yu Shrike Zhang - Young Investigator Award Andreas Kaasi - Innovation/Commercialization Award Catalina Molina Pineda - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award

Fellows

Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (FTERM) recipients are:

Alini, Mauro				Russell, Alan
Atala, Anthony	Hilborn, Jöns	Lee, Jin Ho	Okano, Teruo	Shoichet, Molly	Wagner, William
Badylak, Stephen	Hubbell, Jeffrey	Lee, Hai-Bang	Pandit, Abhay	Smith, David	Weiss, Anthony S.
Cancedda, Ranieri	Hutmacher, Dietmar	Martin, Ivan	Parenteau, Nancy	Tabata, Yasuhiko	Williams, David
Cao, Yilin	Johnson, Peter	Mikos, Antonios	Radisic, Milica	Vacanti, Charles
Griffith, Linda	Khang, Gilson	Mooney, David	Ratner, Buddy	Vacanti, Joseph
Guldberg, Robert	Kirkpatrick, C. James	Naughton, Gail	Redl, Heinz	van Osch, Gerjo
Hellman, Kiki	Langer, Robert	Nerem, Robert	Reis, Rui L.	Vunjak-Novakovic, Gordana

References

1. "TERMIS By-Laws" (PDF).
2. Langer, R.; Vacanti, J. P. (May 14, 1993). "Tissue engineering". Science. 260 (5110): 920–926. doi:10.1126/science.8493529. PMID 8493529 – via science.sciencemag.org.
3. Williams, David F. (October 1, 2009). "On the nature of biomaterials". Biomaterials. 30 (30): 5897–5909. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.07.027 – via ScienceDirect.
4. "The history of TERMIS" (PDF).
5. "Founders | TERMIS". termis.org.
6. "https://twitter.com/syiseu". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-12-15. External link in |title= (help)
7. "Tissue Engineering, Parts A, B, & C | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers". home.liebertpub.com.

External links

• TERMIS homepage
• Tissue Engineering Journal