Osaka Health Science University Insitute for Medical Science in Sports Osaka, Japan
The International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) was founded in 1997 in Switzerland following the 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.
18 years after, ICRS has now 1300 members from 66 countries and around 1000 participants who attend the ICRS World Congress, which is held every 18 months.
Osaka Health Science University Insitute for Medical Science in Sports Osaka, Japan
Alfaclinic Zürich, Switzerland
University of Liverpool Institute of Integrative Biology Liverpool, United Kingdom
University Medical Center, Utrecht Orthopaedics Utrecht, Netherlands
Cornell University Clinical Sciences Ithaca, United States of America
Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Group Santa Monica, United States of America
Kungsbacka Hospital, Göteborg University Cartilage Research Unit Kungsbacka, Sweden
Center of Regenerative Medicine University of Bern Boll, Switzerland
Mayo Clinic Orthopaedics Rochester, United States of America
Billdal, Sweden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Elec. Eng. Comp.Sci. Cambridge, United States of America
Orthopädische Klinik Orthopédie Motier, Switzerland
