MAGDA ULRICH studied Biology/Biochemistry at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. In 1991 she obtained her PhD in biochemistry at the biochemistry department of the University of Maastricht. During her PhD training she worked as a research fellow at the New England Medical Center of Tufts University in Boston, USA, for two years. She obtained her postdoctoral training at the pathology department of the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands and Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford USA.

In 2001 she was appointed as a senior scientist at the research department of the Dutch Burns Foundation. She initiated several projects in the field of wound healing
and skin regeneration.

In 2004 the research activities of the three Dutch burn centres were joined in the Association of Dutch Burn Centres (ADBC). As programme coordinator preclinical
research she supervises the preclinical research group. Her group is involved in a broad range of research areas related to burn wound healing, with special dedication to clinical applications. Since 2005 she also has an appointment at the Department of Dermatology at the Free University in Amsterdam.

BORIS HINZ is Maître d’enseignement et de recherche (MER) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and was recently elected to the ETRS board. He has obtained his PhD degree in Cell Biology and Theoretical Biology from the
University of Bonn, Germany in 1998. From 1999 to 2002 he was postdoctoral fellow of Dr. Giulio Gabbiani, Department of Experimental Pathology, Centre Medical Universitaire, University of Genva, Switzerland. Dr Hinz then moved on to lead a research group at the EPFL joining the worlds of Biophysics, Cell Biology and Bioengineering and was nominated MER in 2006. The research of Boris Hinz is funded by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Gebert Rüf Stiftung, the Novartis Stiftung, and the Swiss Competence Center for Material Science and Technology. The group is expanding and currently offers a Post-Doc position in Biophysics (atomic force microscopy) and a PhD thesis in Cell Biology.