Current Trends In Cartilage Science: An Impression From The Icrs World Conference 2012

From May 12 to 15, 2012, the 10th world congress of the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) was held in Montreal, Canada. This year, there were 850 participants with backgrounds in both basic scientific as well as clinical research directed at cartilage repair and regeneration. It encompassed more than 135 oral and 270 poster contributions; 7 plenary sessions and 20 special sessions were organized (three in parallel), each of which included two to three invited lectures by international leaders in the field, covering recent developments and opinions both in clinical as well as more basic scientific research on cartilage repair.