Prof. Sergio Alexandre Gehrke holds doctorate degrees in two fields: the first is a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Pontificia Catholic University, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2010, and the other is
an International Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche/Alicante, Spain, obtained in 2020. In 2018, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Materials Engineering in the NUCLEMAT of Pontificia Catholic University, Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is currently the Director of the
Postgraduate Program in Implantology of the Bioface/UCAM/PgO (Montevideo, Uruguay), Director of the Cathedra of Biotechnology of the Catholic University of Murcia (Murcia, Spain), an Extraordinary Full Professor of the Catholic University of Murcia (Murcia, Spain), as well as the Director of the private
research center Biotecnos-Technology and Science (Montevideo, Uruguay). Applied biomaterials, cellular and molecular biology, and dental implants are among his research interests.
Prof. Antonio Scarano is a full professor at the Department of Oral Science,
Nano and Biotechnology, D'Annunzio University. He completed his PhD studies
at D'Annunzio University. He had been awarded the Best Research Work on
YearBook Dentistry 1998 and got the 59th position in Expertscape rank. He has
540 publications with 15640 citations and an h-index of 66 (Scopus, 9 October
2024). His research interests include biomaterials, oral surgery, bone
regeneration, clinical medicine, implantology, dentistry, biotechnology,
implant surface, implant-abutment connection and facial soft tissue
augmentation.
André Antonio Pelegrine received his PhD from the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas in 2010. He is a Professor at the Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic. His research interests mainly focus on Tissue Engineering, associated with the in vitro and in vivo study of biomaterials, especially applied to implantology, periodontics, and bone biology.
