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.

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 US 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 and, in the US, the Tissue Engineering Society, soon to become the Tissue Engineering Society international and the Regenerative Medicine Society.
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. Election of officers for TERMIS took place in September 2005, and the by-laws were approved by the Board.

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 and TERMIS-Europe, to be joined at the time of the major Shanghai conference in October 2005 by TERMIS-Asia Pacific. 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 officially in 2012.

Student and Young Investigator Section

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

Activities

Journal

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.

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 clear evidence of their potential to excel.
The Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Best TERM Paper Award has been established to recognize a student researcher 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

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
2021	Akon Higuchi - Outstanding Scientist Award Yinghong Zhu - Young Investigator Award Iman Roohani - Young Investigator Award
2022	Yasuhiko Tabata - Excellence Achievement Award Yin Xiao - Outstanding Scientist Award Jiao Jiao Li - Young Investigator Award Khoon Lim - Young Investigator Award
2023	Guoping Chen - Outstanding Scientist Award Zengping Liu - Young Investigator Award Mark Colin Allenby - Young Investigator Award
2024	Gang Li - Outstanding Scientist Award Akon Higuchi - Excellence Achievement Award Sharun Khan - Young Investigator Award

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
2021	Marietta Hermann - Robert Brown Early Career Principal Investigator Award Jos Malda - Mid Term Career Award Ranieri Cancedda - Career Achievement Award
2022	Riccardo Levato - Robert Brown Early Principal Investigator Award Marianna Tryfonidou - Mid Term Career Award Alicia El Haj - Career Achievement Award
2023	Michael Monaghan - Robert Brown Early Principal Investigator Award Danny Kelly - Mid Term Career Award Mauro Alini - Career Achievement Award
2024	Miguel Castilho - Robert Brown Early Principal Investigator Award Lorenzo Moroni - Mid-Term Career Award

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
2020	Stephen George - Senior Scientist Award Ashley Brown - Young Investigator Award Sarah Rowlinson - Educational Award Jiapu Liang - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Outstanding Student Award
2021	Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic - Lifetime Achievement Award Jennifer Elisseeff - Senior Scientist Award Christine Schmidt - Commercialization/Innovation Award Madeline Cramer - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2022	Laura Niklason - Lifetime Achievement Award Eben Alsberg - Senior Scientist Award Patricia Pranke - Educational, Training and Outreach Award Fatima Syed-Picard - Young Investigator Award Jakob Townsend - Outstanding Postdoc Award Guillermo Ameer - Commercialization and Innovation Award Courney Johnson - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award
2023	Kyricos Athanasiou - Lifetime Achievement Award Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert - Senior Scientist Award Joan Schanck - Educational, Training and Outreach Award
2024	Kyricos Athanasiou - Lifetime Achievement Award Alison McGuigan - Senior Scientist Award Catherine K. Kuo - Educational, Training and Outreach Award

Fellows

Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine recipients are:

Alini, Mauro
Alsberg, Eben
Atala, Anthony
Badylak, Stephen
Cancedda, Ranieri
Cao, Yilin
Chatzinikolaidou, Maria
El Haj, Alicia
Fontanilla, Marta
Germain, Lucie
Gomes, Manuela
Griffith, Linda
Guldberg, Robert
Hellman, Kiki
Hilborn, Jöns
Hubbell, Jeffrey
Hutmacher, Dietmar
Khang, Gilson
Kirkpatrick, C. James
Langer, Robert
Lee, Hai-Bang
Lee, Jin Ho
Lewandowska-Szumiel, Malgorzata
Marra, Kacey
Martin, Ivan
McGuigan, Alison
Mikos, Antonios
Mooney, David
Motta, Antonella
Naughton, Gail
Okano, Teruo
Pandit, Abhay
Parenteau, Nancy
Radisic, Milica
Ratner, Buddy
Redl, Heinz
Reis, Rui L.
Richards, R. Geoff
Russell, Alan
Schenke-Layland, Katja
Shoichet, Molly
Smith, David
Tabata, Yasuhiko
Tuan, Rocky
Vacanti, Charles
Vacanti, Joseph
van Osch, Gerjo
Vunjak-Novakovic, Gordana
Wagner, William
Weiss, Anthony S.

Emeritus

Johnson, Peter
Williams, David

Deceased Fellows

Nerem, Robert