Caroline Hoemann
Professor
Ecole Polytechnique
Canada
Biography
Dr. Hoemann (PhD, MIT, 1992) is a full professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada, and an FRSQ National Research fellow. She has published over 50 articles, 3 opinion papers and 6 patents in the area of tissue engineering, cartilage/bone repair, and blood/innate immune responses to biomaterials. She is a member of the Orthopedic Research Society, Fellow Member of the International Cartilage Repair Society, lead author on the ICRS recommendation paper, “International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) recommended guidelines for histological endpoints for cartilage repair studies in animal models and clinical trials, Cartilage 2011, 2:153-172” and serves on the editorial board of Cartilage, and The Open Orthopaedics Journal. She spent 5 years as Director of Cartilage Repair, in a Montreal-based biomedical device company, where she co-invented and co-developed a novel medical device for articular cartilage repair, BST-CarGel® that was tested in an 80-patient randomized controlled clinical trial, received CE-mark approval, and is now being used in European clinics. Her current research program has created novel bioengineered biomaterial blood clot implants, developed new methods for staining and analyzing human cartilage repair biopsies, and has made advances in understanding the role of therapeutic inflammation and subchondral bone remodeling in cartilage repair responses. Her translational research program aims to understand the influence of local inflammation on cartilage and bone repair, in order to bring new treatment options to patients with arthritis.
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