Notes on invited lecture by Professor René H Tolba, entitled “Translation in surgical research from bench to bedside: development of a new organ preservation machine and organ preservation solution”

Abstract

The 46th Annual Congress of the Japan Society for Organ Preservation and Biology in 2019 was held at Fukushima Medical Device Development Support Centre, an official validation center for development of medical devices. A unique feature of the center is capability of managing preclinical test with experimental pigs including advanced surgical procedure and long-term study. As the president of this annual congress, I requested a keynote lecture to Professor René H Tolba, Professor and Director, Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, University Hospital Aachen, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University, Germany, entitled “Translation in surgical research from bench to bedside: development of a new organ preservation machine and organ preservation solution”. He talked about his experiences of the development of novel bipolar device ‘EnSeal and organ preservation system/solution ‘ECOFLOW’ and ‘ECOSOL’, focusing on usefulness of experiments with pig models. It was a well-timed suggestion for the attending researchers in academia, industries, and regulatory agencies in Japan. Here, I present the brief summary of the lecture and hot discussion under the permission of Professor René H Tolba.
Lecture abstract and biography are available in Organ Biology 2019;26(3):260-261 https://doi.org/10.11378/organbio.26.260.