摘要
Over 150 participants from around the world congregated on the beautiful island of Kos—home of Hippocrates,Father of Medicine—from June 20 to June 25,2014,to share their research findings and engage in dialogue pertaining to progress in tissue engineering.Since the field’s inception,we have witnessed its astonishing development over the past 30 years and the groundbreaking work stemming from both laboratory and clinical settings.Despite continuously evolving concepts and strategies,the essential ingredients of scaffolds,cells and growth factors remain to be explored further.