Mojtaba Barzegari, Sophie Bekisz, Alessio Gamba, Luiz Ladeira, Laura Lafuente-Gracia, and Satanik Mukherjee will present their research at the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Conference (https://vph-conference.org/). As executive director of the VPH Institute, Liesbet Geris will also attend the conference. The conference will take place in Porto (Portugal) from 6 to 9 September 2022.

The titles of the presentations are:

• Mojtaba Barzegari (oral presentation): “High-performance computational modeling of metallic biomaterials biodegradation; a case-study of a personalized biodegradable porous acetabular implant”
• Sophie Bekisz (oral presentation): “Computational insights on the roles of Dll4-Notch and uPARAP in lymphangiogenic sprouts”
• Alessio Gamba (poster): “From Physiological Map to Ontology Unravelling Kidney Toxicity”
• Luiz Ladeira (poster): “Developing a physiological map as a framework to study chemical-induced liver steatosis”
• Laura Lafuente-Gracia (oral presentation): “A 3D in silico model of fracture healing to investigate craniofacial bone defects”
• Satanik Mukherjee (oral presentation): “Calibration and validation of a multiscale model to study the role of mechanics and inflammation in osteoarthritis”