Prof. Yasuhiko Tabata, Kyoto University, Japan
Yasuhiko Tabata is the Professor of laboratory of Biomaterials at the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University and serves as adjunctive professor at 17 different universities. He received his BD in Polymer Chemistry (1981), Ph.D. (1988) in Technology, D.Med.Sc. (2002), and D.Pharm. (2003) all at Kyoto University. He has published 1,630 scientific papers including 145 book chapters and review articles, and has 130 patents. He received the Young Investigator Award (1990), the Scientific Award from the Japanese Society for Biomaterials (2002), the Scientific Award from the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System (2011), Chandra P. Sharma Award of the International Society of Biomaterials & Artificial Organs (2011), the Scientific Award from the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine (2014), Merit Award Winners for Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration, President of Science Council of Japan Award (2016), Outstanding Scientist Award of TERMIS-AP (2018), and several awards. Dr. Tabata is the council member of 5 Japanese Academic Societies or an associate member of the Science Council of Japan, Cabinet Office and the Editorial Board of 7 scientific journals.
Prof. Gary Bowlin, University of Memphis, USA
Gary Bowlin is a Professor and Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence at The University of Memphis in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Bowlin’s collaborative research focuses on the application of electrospun templates for tissue regenerative applications. Dr. Bowlin’s laboratory has published extensively in these areas with over 140 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Google Scholar data shows his group’s published works have been cited almost 17,000 times (H-index of 59). Dr. Bowlin has been granted 15 U.S. Patents and over 40 foreign patents. These patents have helped to start five different companies and several commercially available and regulatory agency cleared products. One of the most recent technologies being developed by St. Teresa Medical, Inc. The latest company, Sweetbio, Inc., is Memphis based and commercializing novel guided tissue regeneration membranes for dental reconstruction and wound healing procedures. He is a Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors and the Inaugural and current President of the International Society for Biomedical Polymers and Polymeric Biomaterials.
Prof. Xiumei MO, Donghua University, China
Dr. Xiumei MO is a professor of Biomaterials in Donghua University. She once had two years Postdoc experience in Kyoto University, three years research fellow experience in National University of Singapore, one year visiting professor experience in Aachen University of Applied Science and Technology. In Donghua University she was granted 28 projects related with nanofiber fabrication for different tissue regeneration and hydrogel as tissue adhesive. She has published more than 300 peer-reviewed journal papers. 3 books, 5 book chapters, ISI Web of Science showed that she ranking No.7 in the world on electrospun nanofiber publication. She got the Science Technical Invention Awards from Shanghai Municipality in 2008,Science and Technology Progress Awards from State Department of People’s Republic of China in 2009, Nature Science Awards from Shanghai Government in 2015. She is the committee members of China Biomaterials Society as well as Biomedical Engineering Society Biomaterials Branch.
Associate Prof. Gareth R. Williams, University College London,
UKGareth received a MChem (Hons) degree from the University of Oxford in 2002. He remained in Oxford for a DPhil (PhD) in materials chemistry working with Prof Dermot O’Hare, which was completed in 2005. Gareth then spent three years working in science programme management for the UK government, before returning to Oxford to take up a post-doctoral position in 2009. In September 2010 he joined London Metropolitan University as a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science, and in November 2012 was appointed to the UCL School of Pharmacy as a Lecturer in Pharmaceutics. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016 and recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2017.Gareth leads a group of around 20 researchers working on a range of topics in drug delivery and vaccine formulation. His group is particularly interested in using polymer based nanomaterials (particles and fibers) prepared by electrohydrodynamic approaches for improving the efficacy of vaccines, targeted drug delivery, and theranostics.
Prof. Urszula Stachewicz, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland
Urszula Stachewicz is an associate professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. She is also working in the International Centre of Electron Microscopy for Materials Science. She graduated from Delft University of Technology with PhD in electrohydrodynamic of liquids to use electrospray as an on-demand deposition method, with research performed at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She conducted the postgraduate study at Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and work at spin-out company Nanoforce Technology Ltd. in polymer science and electrospun fibers. In 2018 she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge at Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, UK. Her research activity is focused on surface properties of electrospun fibers for biomedical and water and energy harvesting, and in situ mechanical testing of synthetic and naturally structured materials. She developed advanced 3D tomography protocols using focus ion beam and scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) for nanofibrous biomaterials and membranes. More information can be found at http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5102-8685.
Dr. Muhammad Shafiq, Pakistan Institute of Engineering &Applied Sciences, Pakistan
Muhammad Shafiq is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad. He has received PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Korea Institute of Science & Technology (KIST), Seoul, Korea in the year 2018. During his PhD he worked on stem cell recruiting biomaterials for tissue engineering & regenerative medicine applications. Particularly, he capitalized on the synthesis of mechano-elastic polymers and their functionalization with the stem cell-active motifs to promote enrichment and adhesion. He attached neuropeptide substance P, MSC-affinity peptide, SDF-1α, and heparin to these polymers. He fabricated electrospun vascular grafts, heart patches, and wound healing materials. He has published about 30 SCI papers in famous journals including Biomaterials, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part, and Macromolecular Research. He has also published 2 book chapters. Besides, he has won Startup Research Grant from Higher Education Commission, Islamabad. He was the secretary of 1st International Symposium on Advances in Chemistry, Polymer Science, and Biomedical Materials. His research interests include but not limited to biofunctional materials, organoids for drug discovery, micro- and nano-fabrication, cardiovascular devices, and tissue engineering.
Prof. Yaopeng Zhang, Donghua University, China
Yaopeng Zhang is Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, and Vice Dean of College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University (DHU), China. He has joined DHU since 2002 after he received his PhD degree in Material Science from DHU. He had worked as a postdoctoral fellow of Kawamura Institute of Chemical Research, Japan from 2004 to 2007. In 2010 and 2016, he was appointed a Visiting Professor in Akita University and in Stony Brook University, respectively. In 2012, he became a full professor in DHU. Dr. Zhang published more than 80 SCI papers in ACS Nano, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces etc. and obtained 36 patents. His work on super-strong functional silk has been reported and highlighted by C&EN and other media. He has been Shanghai Down Scholar, Shanghai Rising-Star Scholar, Shanghai Pujiang Scholar, and Shanghai Chenguang Scholar.
Prof. Wenguo Cui, Ruijin Hospital, China
Wenguo Cui is a full professor at Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He received his Bachelor degree in 2004 and PhD degree of Biomedical Engineering in 2009 from Southwest Jiaotong University in China. In 2013-2015, he worked as a research scholar in Prof. David A. Weitz’s group in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University. His scientific interests are focused on the development of novel biomaterials and nanomaterials for tissue regeneration, drug delivery and disease treatment. He worked as PI for Four projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China and ten other grants in Shanghai. He has published more than 150 SCI papers (H=37, Citation>5,000, including an over 300 citation article), 13 granted patents, one chief editor of 1 book and 9 book chapters as first or corresponding author. He is Section Editor (Associate Editor): BMC Mater (Spring Nature), Associate Editor: Materials Science and Engineering: C (IF=5.0, Elsevier) , Editor: Mate r Today Adv (Elsevier). He has won the prize of Fundamental Bone Research Scholar in Chinese Medical Association, first prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai, second prize of Outstanding Achievement Award in Science Research in the Ministry of Education twice and Chinse Medicine Award and Huaxia Medicie Award.
Prof. Lei Zhai, University of Central Florida, USA
Prof. Insup Noh, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
Prof. Xiangyang Shi, Donghua University, China
Prof. Won Jong Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Prof. Won Jong Kim received his BSc from Hanyang University in 1998, and M.S. and Ph. D. in Biomolecular Engineering in 2004 at Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 2004 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah under the supervision of Prof. Sung Wan Kim. Currently, he is a Mueunjae chaired professor at the Department of Chemistry, POSTECH. His contributions during the past 12 years as POSTCH faculty have been acknowledged by the publication of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in the most important journals in his field, such as Nature Comm, Angew Chem, Adv. Mat., ACS Nano, Nano Lett, Small, and Biomaterials. He received KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award (2011), Wiley-PSK Journal of Polymer Science Young Scientist Award (2012), KCS-Award for the Advancement of Science (2014), and PSK-Mid-career Researcher Academy Award (2015). He is an associate editor of newly launched journal “Nanotheranostics”, and editorial member of “Materials Today Chemistry”, and advisory board member of “Biomaterials Science”.
Prof. Elżbieta Pamuła, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Elżbieta Pamuła is a full professor in biomaterials engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland. She was graduated in materials science and chemical technology and after earned PhD and habilitation in materials science. She was appointed as a post-doc at UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and as a visiting professor at the Sydney University. Her research group interests are focused on polymers processing into scaffolds and drug delivery systems, injectable and implantable bone substitutes and surface modification. She has published >100 ISI listed papers, 1 monograph, 6 book chapters and 8 patents. She was a Vice-Chair of 27th ESB Conference in 2015 and 4th ISBPPB Conference in 2018, both in Kraków. She actively participated in hundreds of international conferences on biomaterials, biomedical engineering and materials science, where she delivered numerous invited talks. She was a supervisor of 50 MSc, 25 Engineer and 10 PhD students, acted as a reviewer and panel member of hundreds grant applications in Polish and international founding agencies. In 2016 she was elected the President of Polish Society for Biomaterials.
Dr. Xin Zhao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Prof. Limin Zhu, Donghua University, China
Prof. Aizheng Chen, Huaqiao University, China
Prof. Swee-Hin Teoh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Chaozong Liu, University College London, UK
Prof. João Rodrigu,Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Prof. Mark W. Grinstaff, Boston University, Boston, USA
Prof. Elizabeth Brisbois, University of Central Florida, USA
Prof. Jinbo Yin, Shanghai University, China
Prof. Santosh Aryal, Kansas State University, USA
Prof. Maria Chatzinikolaidou, University of Crete, Greece
Prof. Wen Zeng, MD, Army Medical University, China
Prof. Lu Wang, Donghua University, China
Prof. Meital Zilberman, Tel Aviv University, Isreal
Dr. Munmaya Mishra, ENCAPCR LLC, USA
Prof. Seema Agarwal Works at University of Bayreuth as academic director and professor with research interest in synthesis of functional speciality polymers, processing methods and nanostructures. She has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. She is Alexander von Humboldt fellow and got Hermann-Schnell award of German Chemical Society. She is the chief-editor of e-Polymers
Prof. Archana Bhaw-Luximon, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Prof. Ng Kee Woei, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Tetsuji YAMAOKA, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan
Prof. Fuke Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Minglin Ma, Cornell University, USA
Minglin Ma is an Associate Professor at the Biological and Environmental Engineering Department of Cornell University. He received his BS degree from Tsinghua University and PhD from MIT, both in Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining Cornell in 2013, he worked as a Lead Scientist at General Electric Global Research Center and as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Robert Langer’s laboratories at MIT Koch Institute. He has published near 60 papers on journals such as Science, PNAS, Nature Materials, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Immunology and Nature Communications. His current research interest is to develop advanced biomaterials for agricultural and biomedical applications. He has obtained over 10 million dollar research funding in the past 6 years, aiming to develop a cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes. His work has been recognized by a number of awards including American Diabetes Association Junior Faculty Award, 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award, BMES Advanced Biomanufacturing Junior Investigator Award, the Fiber Society Distinguished Achievement Award and two Teaching Excellence awards from Cornell University.
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He is a professor in Chemistry and the Director of NanoScience Technology Center at the University of Central Florida. His research focuses on the self-assembly of conjugated polymers, polyelectrolyte nanostructures, and polymer derived ceramic composites.
Dr. Zhai is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award, is a Scialog Fellow (Research Corporation for Science Advancement), and has received the Outstanding Chemist Award at American Chemical Society (ACS) Orlando Section in 2013. Prof. Zhai has served as the associate editor of Materials.
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Prof. Qing Liu, Beijing Advanced Medical Technologies, China
Dr. Liu is the President and CEO of Beijing Advanced Medical Technologies (AMT) and an adjunct Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. degree in biomaterials from Twente University (the Netherlands) in 1997 under the supervision of Professor C. A van Blitterswijk and Professor J. Feijen. He was a postdoctoral fellow from 1997-1999 in the Lab of Professor A. G. Mikos at Rice University in Houston. Dr. Liu has over 25 years of R&D experience in biomaterials and medical device. From 2002-2007, Dr. Liu served as Director of Biomaterials R&D at Celgene Corporation where he directed the stem cell and biomaterial combination product development programs. He co-founded 3D Biotek in 2007 and served as CEO/CSO. In 2011, he co-founded AMT to develop totally bioresorbable coronary and peripheral stents using proprietary 3D printing technologies.
Prof. Feng Chen, Tongji University, China
Dr. Feng Chen is a professor and principal investigator (PI) of Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital and Advanced Institute of Translational Medicine of Tongji University. He obtained his Ph.D from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014 and MS from Donghua University in 2008. Dr. Feng Chen started his academic career at Shanghai Institute of Ceramic, Chinese Academic of Science in 2008, and moved to Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital in 2018. The aim of Chen’s research is to explore novel biomimetic materials and investigate their applications in biomedical field. His group have developed numerous techniques for the synthesis of biomimetic materials with controllable structures and functions. He has obtained 18 authorized patents, and published more than 100 papers which have been cited more than 4000 times (H-index 37).
Dr. Kyung Min Park, Incheon National University, Korea
Dr. Kyung Min Park is an associate professor of the Department of Bioengineering and Nano-bioengineering at the Incheon National University, Republic of Korea. Dr. Park received his Ph.D. in the Molecular Science and Technology (MST) at Ajou University in 2012. After Ph.D., he pursued his post-doctoral training in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CHEMBE) at the Johns Hopkins University from 2012 to 2015. Finally, he joined the Incheon National University in 2015. His current research focuses on designing advanced hydrogel materials for a broad range of biomedical applications, including tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and drug delivery as well as engineered healthy/disease models.
University (NTU) Singapore, is known for the clinical translation of 3D printed bioresorbable scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. This device has FDA approval and implanted in more than 20,000 patients. His pioneering work in fracture and wear of biomaterials is well recognized. He has won a number of major awards such as the “Golden Innovation Award”, Far East Economic Review, and the Institute of Engineers Singapore “Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award” (2004). Majoring in Materials Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, his research journey focused on translating the materials research to biomedical benefits. He has over 260 research publications and 22 patents. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineers Singapore and Chief Engineer at the Skin Research Institute of Singapore. Recently he was awarded a significant grant from the Ministry of Education Singapore to develop a unique bioreactor with electromagnetic energy to study the effect on bone growth. His Web of Science Citation recorded is 8,815 and h-index is 48. He has also won numerous “Excellent Teaching Awards”.
Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Academician Seeram Ramakrishna is a professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), which is ranked among the top 11 universities in the world. He is an elected Fellow of UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); Singapore Academy of Engineering; Indian National Academy of Engineering; and ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics) and a World’s Most Influential Scientific Mind (Thomson Reuters). He co-authored ~ 1,000 SCI listed journal papers and eight books, which received ~100,000 citations and 148 H-index. He is an editorial board member of NATURE Scientific Reports, Elsevier Journal Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, and Springer Nature Journal Adanced Fiber Materials.
Prof. Hitesh Handa,University of Georgia, USA
Dr. Hitesh Handa is a faculty member in the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia. Dr. Handa's area of focus is in translational research for development of medical device coatings, wound healing materials, therapeutic nanoparticles, and microfluidic artificial lungs. This work in designing innovative materials and testing them in animal models has resulted in over 60 publications and 12 patent applications. Hitesh’s work has been funded by NIH-R01, CDC, Department of Veteran Affairs, US Army, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Geneva Foundation, and industrial grants. With his experience in biomolecular interactions, materials/surface science, polymeric coatings, blood-surface interactions and animal models, his goal is to bridge the gap between the engineers and clinical researchers in the field of biocompatible materials.
Prof. Hu Yang, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Dr. Hu Yang is Professor of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceutics, and the holder of Qimonda Endowed Chair of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He is a member of VCU Massey Cancer Center. Dr. Yang’s research is centered on molecular engineering of dendrimers for drug and gene delivery in the applications of cancer therapy, atherosclerosis and glaucoma. Dr. Yang received Wallace Coulter Young Investigator Award in 2009 and NSF CAREER Award in 2010. His research has resulted in more than 80 peer-reviewed articles published in journals such as Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Journal of Controlled Release, Macromolecules, and Biomacromolecules. He is Associate Editor of Materials Express and serves on the editorial board for Journal of Biological Engineering, Int. J. Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials, and Smart Materials in Medicine.
Prof. Seema Agarwal,University of Bayreuth, Germany
Prof. Iza Radecka, University of Silesia, Poland
Iza completed her PhD in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Silesia, Poland. She joined the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom in September 2000. Since then she has continued her research into the production of biodegradable polymers from bacteria. Her research is focused on the cost-effective production of novel bio-based polymeric materials from waste. Iza has published numerous research papers in highly ranked scientific journals, authored several chapters in biotechnological books. She has also given a broad number of invited lectures at international conferences. Iza successfully supervised 16 PhD students, she also teaches on a wide variety of microbiology and biotechnology courses, both undergraduate and postgraduate level where she puts her knowledge and experience to good effect.
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