Prof. Dr. Keita Ito

Prof. Dr. Keita Ito received his Sc.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He then did a fellowship at the Inselspital (Bern, Switzerland) and AO Research Institute (Davos, Switzerland) where he stayed eventually becoming Vice Director. His research during this period focused on biomechanics and mechanobiology of bone healing and intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration. He then became a full professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), where he leads the Orthopaedic Biomechanics group. He also is a professor in the Dept. of Orthopaedics at the University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands) where he works on the mechanobiology of musculoskeletal regenerative medicine. He has co-authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications and is on the editorial board of Biomech Model Mechanobiol, J Orthop Res, Tissue Eng and is a deputy-editor of the Global Spine Journal. He and his group have been awarded the Spine Young Investigator Award 2004, the ESB Perren Award 2010, GSJ Best Paper Award 2014, as well as other conference awards.