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To deliver the Bridging the Gaps objectives, a new BTG Executive Board was formed, chaired by Professor Alicia J. El Haj, comprising:

Professor Nureddin Ashammakhi

Professor Nureddin Ashammakhi, formerly of Keele University, United Kingdom. Professor Nureddin Ashammakhi holds research (PhD) and surgical (FRCSEd) qualifications. As Keele's Professor of Regenerative Medicine he was co-author of the Hyanji Scaffold application to EC Framework 7 IRSES programme, and led the project in 2008-9. Previously he was Professor of Biomanterials Technology in Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Professor George Guo-Qiang Chen

Professor George Guo-Qiang Chen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Professor Chen is a Cheung Kong Scholar, Winner of the National Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scientists of China. 1985, BSc, South China University of Technology. 1989, PhD, Graz University of Technology, Austria. He is the Director of Multidisciplinary Research Center of Shantou University.

Professor Emo Chiellini

Professor Emo Chiellini, Pisa University, Italy. Professor Chiellini is a Professor of fundaments of chemical technology (Polymer chemistry and organic chemistry) at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pisa and he is the President of the PhD course in Biomaterials of the PhD school in Molecular Biosciences (BIOS-School).

Professor Alicia El Haj

Professor Alicia El Haj, Keele University, United Kingdom. Professor El Haj is involved in bringing together interdisciplinary groups within biomedicine, physical sciences and engineering interested in aspects of cell and tissue engineering.

Professor Nicholas Forsyth

Professor Nicholas Forsyth, Keele University, United Kingdom. Professor Forsyth's research group is based at the Keele University Hartshill campus and located in the Guy Hilton Research Centre. The research interests of the group lie in the development and application of advanced cell culture environments for the optimized expansion and differentiation of adult and embryonic stem cells.

Dr Zheng Gui Tang

Dr Zheng Gui Tang, Formerly of Keele University, United Kingdom. Dr Tang's research is in self-assembly and guided self-assembly of macromolecules; micro- and nano-fabrication; process analytical technology; formulation and controlled release; biomaterials and tissue engineering.

Professor Zhirong Zhang

Professor Zhirong Zhang, Sichuan University, China. Professor Zhang is a member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, the deputy of State Pharmacopeia Committee of China, the director of the committee of pharmaceutical excipents and package materials, vice president of the compiling of the book for academic medical colleges, vice president of the pharmaceutical committee in Pharmaceutical Society of China.