Contact - Secretariat
ICRS Executive Office
Seestrasse 53
CH-8702 Zollikon
Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 390 18 40
Fax: +41 44 390 18 41
email: office@cartilage.org
[Website]
Presentation
ICRS is a forum for international collaboration in cartilaginous tissue research by bringing together basic scientists and clinical researchers engaged or interested in the field of cartilage biology and cartilaginous tissue engineering.
The link between laboratory work and the daily treatments of patients in a clinical setting is very important.
Subsequently ICRS has as the ultimate goal the stimulation of education and research within the field of cartilage repair through regular meetings, skills courses, publications and other forms of communication.
The International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) was founded in 1997 in Switzerland following the 2 International Fribourg Symposium on Cartilage Repair and initiated by the organisers of this first meeting.
Prior to the meeting, the members of the faculty were asked for their opinion regarding our idea and whether they thought there was a place for the creation of a cartilage repair society and the echo was overwhelmingly positive.
The meeting proved indeed to become a unique venue and was successful because we were able to gather on one hand contributions of basic scientists and a research oriented group and on the other clinicians and orthopaedic surgeons focused on one pertinent question. This made up for a truly international symposium with some 330 participants and faculty members from 28 countries.
10 years after, ICRS has now 950 members from 57 Countries and around 1000 participants from 60 Countries who attend the ICRS World Congress, which is hold every 18 months.
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