Biomaterials Science Blog

The Society for Biomaterials will hold its 2015 Annual Meeting (SFB 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA on 15th-18th April 2015 at the Charlotte Convention Centre.

Dates and deadlines:

Registration is open, sign up now to avoid disappointment.

The abstract submission deadline for poster presentations has passed and abstracts are no longer being accepted.

Browse the programme:

The programme for SFB 2015 is live, so why not take a look. Key speakers include: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University and Stuart B. Goodman, Stanford University. For a full list of speakers visit the website.

Themes:

The theme of this year’s meeting is Driving Innovation and the Race to Translation; a tribute to the city’s rich motor racing history. In keeping with that theme, the meeting will be organised into five thematic areas:

1. Translation: Focused on translating research from the lab to the clinic, advancing biomaterials in their product development life cycle

2. Biofabrication/Biomanufacturing: Manufacturing techniques e.g. nanoprinting, rapid prototyping, microfluidic based printing, etc.

3. Multi-Functional Biomaterial Design: Drug/gene delivery, biosensing, and complex tissue regeneration, etc.

4. Biocompatibility and Immune Engineering: How to harness/modulate the immune response (innate and adaptive) for biomaterial design or technology translation

5. Other topics of interest to the biomaterials community

For full details visit the SFB 2015 website.

We are delighted to announce that 12th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC12) will be held at the University of York on 20 – 23 July 2015. Abstracts are now invited for this event so submit today and take advantage of this excellent opportunity to present your work alongside scientists from across the globe.

This cutting edge international research conference is organised around four exciting and diverse areas of the application of materials chemistry. One prominent theme at MC12 is Biomaterials, encompassing materials for tissue engineering, biomaterials for healthcare, green biomaterials and advanced synthesis methods of biomaterials. Visit http://rsc.li/mc12 to find out more and submit your abstract today.

We are pleased to announce that The 3rd Symposium on Innovative Polymers for Controlled Delivery (SIPCD 2014)

In Honor of Prof. Dr. Jan Feijen’s 70th Birthday

will be held on September 16-19, 2014 in the Garden Hotel, Suzhou, China

The symposium is co-organized by Soochow University and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. SIPCD 2014 will welcome approximately 450 delegates, with 31 invited lectures and 220 poster presentations. The whole symposium is organized in one single session. It will also include a stimulating Debate on Drug Delivery.

Invited speakers include Biomaterials Science board members Jianjun Cheng and Jun Wang. A full list of International Plenary Speakers can be found here.

Please see the conference website to register your attendance or submit an abstract.

Incorporating the 5th International NanoBio Conference & 3rd International Conference on BioNano Innovation (ICBNI), NanoBio Australia 2014 will take place on 6-10th July 2014 in Brisbane, Australia.

The intersection of Biology with Nanoscience and Nanotechnology currently represents one of the most exciting wellsprings of scientific innovation, and is also a major stimulus for a plethora of high value technologies and industries. By combining the two largest conferences in the world which focus on this scientific frontier, NanoBio Australia 2014 will feature a diverse array of multi-disciplinary science designed to connect world-leading scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs working in this space.

International Plenary Speakers:

• Dr Leroy Hood –Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA
• Professor Pamela Silver – Harvard University, USA
• Professor Molly Stevens – Imperial College, UK
• Professor Virgil Percec – University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Professor Thomas Healy AO – The University of Melbourne, Australia

Please see the conference website to register your attendance or submit an abstract.

The 11th International Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium (NanoDDS’13) will be held Oct. 25-26, 2013 at the University of California, San Diego. NanoDDS is the key annual event for researchers developing next-generation delivery vehicles: targeted, responsive, biodegradable nanomaterials for drug delivery, diagnostics, noninvasive imaging, and regenerative medicine. This symposium, co-chaired by Adah Almutairi of UC San Diego and Andrew Mackay of the University of Southern California, features a diverse group of creative, high-profile investigators, including Erkki Ruoslahti, Samuel Stupp, and Allan Hoffman.

Abstracts for poster presentations will be accepted from May through September; the top three abstracts will win prizes and oral presentation slots.

More information can be found here.

On 17-19 March 2013 RSC Publishing and the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University (WPI-iCeMS) are jointly hosting an International Symposium on “Cell-Material Integration and Biomaterials Science”.

The symposium will commemorate the launch of RSC Publishing’s new high impact journal, Biomaterials Science.

 Sessions will include topics such as:

• From molecules to cells 
• Nano/meso-structures toward biological applications 
• Integration of cell biology and materials

 See the program for more details on who is speaking… 

If you are in the area come along, it is completely free to attend!