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The European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO)
The ESAO is a non-profit European organization founded in 1974 in Geneva. The running activities are emerging into an interdisciplinary field of research, development and clinics in which fields of artificial and bioartificial organs, applied biomaterials sciences, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine aim to support, replace and/or restore the function of tissues and organs. The mission of ESAO is grounded on three key global sustainable, measurable, and science evidence-based pillars:
 * 1) promoting and publishing advances in the field;
 * 2) coordinating and developing new research avenues with similar European Societies;
 * 3) promoting and exchanging information;

The ESAO issues one official journal The International journal of Artificial Organs (IJAO) and online News & Updates letters. The ESAO clusters its activities in the Annual Congress held in different European Cities, the organization of schools and different research groups. ESAO is also part of International Federation of Artificial Organs (IFAO), World Apheresis Association (WAA) and European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering & Science (EAMBES). ESAO is actively involved in organizing Joint Congresses & Sessions within related biomedical and biomaterials fields: the 7th International Congress- BioNanoMed 2016- Nanotechnology enables Personalized Medicine.

Membership
ESAO is acting as a solid ideational scientific platform for those who are living in Europe and beyond it. It encircles also a comprehensive strategy for the eligible promotion of young scientist’s categories, the yESAO – the ESAO Young Researchers’ Initiative.

The ESAO platform offers to the yESAO & Group members in low income countries:
 * to get in contact with the experts in the field, hence creating equal opportunities to be involved in all activities of the organization.
 * to network and interact with peers and senior researchers, promoting new collaborations and fostering future innovative integrated research.

An added value of ESAO membership is the free access to the International Journal of Artificial Organs (IJAO) and reduced fees for members at the annual congresses and schools.

Activities
Grounded on a robust scientific platform, ESAO is engaging and tailoring its activities to the audience that is composed of researcher, engineers and physicians with an academic, clinical and industrial background. ESAO is committing to play a pivotal role to encourage and promote research on artificial and bioartificial organs and related areas. Inclusion and diversity, two key elements of ongoing ESAO platform establish and promote the collaboration between scientific institutions and clinics concerned in Europe, and in countries throughout the world. Likewise, the diversity role of institutions such as academia and companies are tide in an optimum collaboration, to responding to demands in various fields of artificial organs research. The ESAO policy is to favor efficient and effective collaboration between groups that hold at least one ESAO member.

The ESAO actively promotes research through its Research Program and Working Groups:
 * Artificial Organs,
 * Artificial Heart,
 * Aphaeresis and Adsorption,
 * Tissue Engineering,
 * Uremic toxins,
 * Education,
 * yESAO.

ESAO is organizing congresses, informational meetings, seminars as well as high level of education “Winter-Schools” in which specific topics of general interest for researchers in the field of Artificial Organs and Regenerative Medicine are addressed. The resulting information is disseminated throughout registry reports, published in journals including the IJAO and other educational materials. By its scientific advisory board ESAO is awarding the most valuable scientific achievements presented at annual congress with “WICHTIG Award” for the best publication in the field sponsored by WICHTIG Editor and “Poster & Innovation Awards” and the “Emil-Buecherl-Award” for lifelong, outstanding achievements in the field of Artificial Organs.