Membership Achievements – TENET – COST Action CA22170 https://cost-tenet.eu TEndon Regeneration NETwork Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:27:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://cost-tenet.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tenet-favicon.png Membership Achievements – TENET – COST Action CA22170 https://cost-tenet.eu 32 32 Early Career Research Award https://cost-tenet.eu/membership-achievements/early-career-research-award/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:24:40 +0000 https://cost-tenet.eu/?p=3550

Alberto Sensini

CTR and cBITE Departments – MERLN Institute, Maastricht University

Faculty of Science and Engineering – Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen

Alberto Sensini, member of TENET, has been awarded by the European Society of Biomechanics, which hosted the 10th World Congress of Biomechanics 2026 in Vancouver, Canada, last July, recognising his outstanding young research achievements.

More detailed info here at the official ESB website.

He is being recognised for the results achieved through his European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship project, 3NTHESES, conducted at the MERLN Institute under the supervision of Professors Lorenzo Moroni and Martijn van Griensven. His participation in the conference, in Vancouver was supported by TENET COST Action through the Young Researchers and Innovator Conference Grant.

The new has been mentioned also in a local Italian newspaper, il Resto del Carlino

Short bio

He obtained his Ph.D. cum Laude in Mechanics and Advanced Sciences of Engineering in 2019 at the University of Bologna, supervised by Profs. Luca Cristofolini, Andrea Zucchelli and Maria Letizia Focarete. In his thesis he developed and patented, with his supervisors ,an innovative multiscale hierarchical electrospun scaffold for the regeneration/replacement of tendons, ligaments, muscles, nerves also applicable to produce sensors and actuators and the method for its production (i.e. Hierarchical Electrospinning). The thesis was awarded in 2020, among the other awards, with the prestigious Best Doctoral Thesis in Biomechanics from the European Society of Biomechanics. He his author of several papers/patents, invited/plenary/keynote speaker at international conferences where he also served as chair/co-chair of thematic sessions and scientific committee member. He was PI/co-PI of funded research projects and he won several research awards for his research. He is reviewer of several leading journals of biofabrication and biomaterials.
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Martijn van Griensven 

MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, 

Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Prof. Martijn van Griensven, active leader of Working Group 5 and member of TENET has been awarded during TERMIS EU 226 Conference in Palma (ES) for his career. He gave a lecture entitled: “My 30 years journey in regenerative medicine for the musculoskeletal system”.

Congratulations Martijn!

Short bio
Martijn van Griensven (1974) studied in Leiden (NL) and was trained in Hannover (D). He was appointed as full professor for experimental trauma surgery in 2002 and at that time he was the youngest professor in Germany. In 2005, he became co-director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna (A). In 2011, he was appointed as director of Experimental Trauma Surgery at the Technical University of Munich (D). Since September 2019, he is full professor of regenerative medicine and head of the department of Cell Biology-Inspired Tissue Engineering of the MERLN Institute at Maastricht University (NL). Since February 2023, he is vice director of MERLN. He is also affiliated to the Musculoskeletal Gene Therapy Research Group (Prof. Chris Evans), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. He is a visiting professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima (Peru). He is professor at the UNESCO chair for biomaterials, Universidad de la Habana (Cuba).

Martijn is member of TERMIS since 2005. From 2017 to 2022 he was elected council member. Furthermore, he was involved in the “meeting and sponsorship” committee, that he chaired from 2020 until 2022. His main research areas are related to diagnostic and therapy methods for the musculoskeletal system with a strong pathway from pathogenetic causes to translational regenerative medicine. Furthermore, he is interested in the crosstalk between organs after traumatic injuries.

He has published 374 peer reviewed papers, 3 patents, 32 book chapters and he has edited 4 books.
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