Speaker: Keita Ito
Location: Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Galway
Date: Monday, 23rd November 2026
Prof. Dr Keita Ito holds doctorates in Medical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in Medicine from Harvard University. He is Professor and Chair of Orthopaedic Biomechanics in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, where his research combines numerical and experimental approaches with engineering and biological methods to investigate restorative and regenerative processes in bone, cartilage, intervertebral discs, tendons and ligaments. He is also Professor of Orthopaedics at University Medical Center Utrecht.
Professor Ito holds an ERC Advanced Grant investigating the aetiology of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and leads a Dutch consortium developing technologies for large-scale cartilage engineering. He has co-authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications and is Editor-in-Chief of JOR Spine. He is also a Counsellor of the World Council for Biomechanics and an Honorary Member of the European Society of Biomechanics. His awards include the Spine Young Investigator Award, ESB Perren Award, GSJ Best Paper Award and Excellence in Translational Science Award.
The seminar is hosted by Abhay Pandit.
