Ahmad

Ahmad presented at the 2025 MCAA Annual Conference

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the 2025 Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference and General Assembly, which took place in Krakow, Poland on 21-22 March 2025. He presented his work in a talk entitled “CT-Based Calculations of Perfusion-Induced Wall Shear Stresses in Osteochondral Explants of Intervertebral Discs”.
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Ahmad has received a travel grant from the FWB

Ahmad Alminnawi has received a travel grant from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FWB), which will allow him to attend an international research stay in Barcelona, Spain for 4 months. He will be collaborating with the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB) group at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) to create an osteochondral modeling and simulation tool.
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BSTE 2024: Several team members presented their research

The 2024 edition of the Belgian Symposium of Tissue Engineering (BSTE) took place in Leuven. Several team members presented their research. We had some oral presentations in several sessions: Biomechanics and in silico modeling: Laura Lafuente-Gracia and Loïc Comeliau Cell Biology & Molecular Pathways: Ehsan Sadeghian Biofabrication & Bioprinting: Ayse Kose Clinical translation: Gabriele Nasello And also some[...]
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Ahmad participated in the 2024 ISSLS Annual Meeting

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) Annual meeting in 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy from 27th to 31st May, 2024. Ahmad presented a poster about his research, entitled “Image-based wall shear stresses calculations in cartilage endplate explants and scaffolds in perfusion culture”.
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Ahmad participated in the BSTE 2023

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the 10th Belgian Symposium of Tissue Engineering (BSTE), which took place on 6-7 December 2023 at the University of Liège in Liège, Belgium. He gave an oral presentation entitled “An In Silico Tool To Simulate Fluid Flow And Shear Stresses On CEP Cells In Tissues And Scaffolds”.
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Ahmad and Lies have published in JOR Spine

Ahmad Alminnawi and Liesbet Geris, among other co-authors, have published a review paper in the JOR Spine. The paper is titled “Cartilaginous endplates: A comprehensive review on a neglected structure in intervertebral disc research”. This paper emphasizes the importance of the cartilaginous endplates in intervertebral disc degeneration and lower back pain and its potential as[...]
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Ahmad participated in the 2023 VPH Summer School

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the 7th Barcelona VPH Summer School, which took place from 5 to 9 June 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. He presented a poster with the title “presentation An In Silico Tool To Simulate Fluid Flow And Shear Stresses On CEP Cells In Tissues And Scaffolds”.
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TERMIS 2023: Ahmad presented his work

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) European Chapter Meeting 2023, which took place in Manchester, UK from the 28th  to 31st March 2023. Ahmad presented a poster entitled “Direction Dependent Mass Transport Through the Cartilage Endplate”.
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Ahmad attended the Disc4All Winter School

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the 3rd Disc4All Winter School, which took place in Demokritos, Athens, Greece from the 20th of February till the 24th of February 2023. There, he gave an oral presentation entitled “Cartilage Endplate Permeability: From In Vitro to In Silico”.
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