ETRS Annual Meeting in Southampton, organised by Raj Mani, proved to be a great success with an exciting programme containing a diverse range of presentations from Nanotechnology to Regenerative Biology. As a new initiative, the winner of the Young Investigator Award will be presenting their work at the Wound Healing Annual Meeting in San Diego in 2008. Next year will also see the ETRS engaging with the World Union of Wound Healing Associations in their meeting in Toronto in early June 2008. In this meeting ETRS will be organising part of the scientific programme.

Much work is being done by Hilde Beele in re-drafting the constitution of the ETRS, which has remained unchanged since it was originally drafted. This re-drafting will see a new constitution whose operating procedures and practice match the current organisation. The proposed revisions to the constitution will be circulated to the membership in 2008, before discussion at the next General Assembly. The General Assembly in 2008 will be at the ETRS Meeting; being held for the first time, in Malta in September. This two-day meeting is being organised by David Leaper and George Cherry, and will build upon the success of the recent Southampton meeting.

Finally, it is with great sadness that we report that one of the founder members of the ETRS, Professor Charles Lapière, died on 8 November. He was a ‘leading light’ in establishing the discipline of wound healing internationally and there is a tribute to him in this issue of the ETRS Bulletin.

Dave Thomas
ETRS Secretary