ARI Orthopaedics Conference
ARI Orthopaedics, Science with Open Discussion


ARI Orthopaedics 2026 - Cartilage & Disc
22nd – 24th June 2026, Congress Center, Davos, Switzerland

Program at a Glance



Program Overview

08:45 – 09:00

Welcome
Room Aspen


The outlay below serves as a guideline to the overall programm and is still to be defined.

09:00 – 10:00

Session 1:
Berton Rahn Award & Brian Johnstone

10:00 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15

Session 2: Clinical Developments
Joshua Li (US) & Martin Englund (Sweden)

12:15 – 15:00

Lunch

15:00 – 16:30

Session 3: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Catherine Le Visage (France) & Julian Jones (UK)

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30

Session 4: Preclinical and Clinical Research
Chris Little (AUS) & Giuseppe Filardo (Switzerland)

18:30 – 20:00

Poster Reception

 

Tuesday 23.06.2026

08:30 – 10:30

Session 5: Cells in Orthopaedics
Rui Yue (China) & Marianna Tryfonidou (Netherland)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00

Session 6: Tissue Cross-talk
Rachel E. Miller (US) & Jiao Jiao Li (Australia)

13:00 – 18:00

Free Afternoon

18:00 – 00:00

Congress Dinner
Walserhuus Sertig

Wednesday 24.06.2026

08:30 – 10:00

Session 7: Mechanobiology and Modeling
Martin Knight (UK) & Jérôme Noailly (Spain)

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00

Session 8: ORS Spine Section Session
Makarand Risbud (US) & Nam Vo (US)

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 14:30

Session 9: EU Consortiums - SinPain, OstaSkills and NetwOArk
Meriem Lamghari (Portugal) & Tim Welting (Netherland)

14:30 – 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:00

Session 10: Drug and Gene delivery
Ambika G Bajpayee (US)

16:00 – 16:30

Awards & Closing