Introduction

The Skeletal Tissue Engineering Group Amsterdam ("STEGA") is a multidisciplinary group of scientists working on fundamental and clinical aspects of skeletal tissues and implants. STEGA performs research in tissue engineering, orthopaedics, dentistry, cell biology, biochemistry, biomechanics, biomaterials, stem cell technology, clinical physics, medical imaging, and applied computer science.

STEGA has been established as a foundation in 1998, and finds its roots in the Department of Orthopaedics of the Vrije Universiteit, the Department of Oral Cell Biology of the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), and the Department of Clinical Physics and Informatics of the University Hospital Vrije Universiteit  in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Objectives of the STEGA foundation are to perform and promote fundamental and clinical research on the maintenance, repair, and regeneration of skeletal tissues in general, and on orthopaedic and dental implantology in particular.