There were 5 awards, with a total of 7 prizes in this ISL&T-X meeting. The Savio Woo Young Researcher Award (2 prizes), the Young Faculty Paper Award and one additional Best Student Paper Award were new to this meeting, due to the generous support of Flexcell International Corporation, the Asian ♦ American Institute for Research and Education and the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The winners of these awards were:

• Savio Woo Young Researcher Paper Award
  1. Biological research: Xiao Chen, Biological, Center for Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
     “Tendon-lineage Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Induced Tendon-lineage Differentiation by Overexpression of Scleraxis and Dynamic Mechanical Stress”
  2. Clinical research: Saira Chaudhry, Clinical, School of Engineering and Material Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
     “Eccentric & Concentric Calf Muscle Loading: An In Vivo Study of Force & EMG”
• Best Student Paper Award

1. Gustav Andersson, Department of Anatomy, Institute of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Sweden
   “Tenocyte Hypercellularity and Vascular Proliferation in a Rabbit Model of Tendinopathy-Contralateral Effects Suggest the Involvement of Central Neuronal Mechanisms”
2. Kei Saito, Kogakuin University, Japan
   “Effects of Cyclic Tensioning Culture on a Stem Cell-Based Self Assembled Tissue (scSAT) Derived from Synovium”

• Best Young Faculty Paper Award
1. Atsuo Nakamae, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Hiroshima University, Japan
   “Biomechanical Function of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Remnants: Effects of Remnant Pattern and Duration between Injury and Surgery of Knee Stability Evaluated with a Navigation System”
• Best Research Fellow paper Award
  1. Wei Liu, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai 9th People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
     “Mechanical Stimulation Enhances Engineered Tendon Formation In Vitro and In Vivo”
• Best Poster Award
  1. Katsumasa Tei, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
     “Neovascularization is an Essential Factor in Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) Healing”

• ISL & T 2010 Report (Doc)
• Program Book ISLT 2010 Program book (PDF)

Session 1: Tendinopathy-Pathogenesis and Treatment

• Kai Ming Chan
  • B To B in Tendinopathy, Where Is the Missing Gap?
• Ming Hao Zheng
  • Update of Clinical Trail on Autologous Tenocyte Therapy for Tendon Degeneration 

Session 2: Tendon Development and Tendon Cell Differentiation

• Hong Wei Ouyang
  • Overview on Current Tendon Development and Differentiation Researches

Session 3: Translational Research for Tendons and Ligaments

• Rocky S. Tuan
  • Regulation of Adult Stem Cells Fate and Function in Tissue Engineering and Regeneration

Session 4: Functional Tissue Engineering and Repair of Ligaments and Tendons 

• Hui Qi Xie
  • Research of Tissue Engineered Tendon and Its Clinical Trial in Repairing of Ligaments and Tendons

Session 5: Tissue Mechanics

• James H C Wang
  • Mechanics Rules Cell Biology

Session 6: ACL Reconstruction-Biology of Healing and In Vivo Knee Kinematics

• Guo An Li
  • The Graft Fixation Sequence Affects their Force Distributions in Double Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
• Masahiro Kurosaka
  • Title TBC