Biomaterials Science Blog

Biomaterials Science, Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry B were pleased to support the recent Bioceramics34 conference which was held from 18 – 21 October 2024 in Shanghai, China. We were pleased to sponsor 7 Young Scientist Awards for the best presentations. Please join us in congratulating our winners and find out about some of them below!

Siyu Chen received her Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Xingdong Zhang in National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials (NEBM), Sichuan University. She is now currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in West China Hospital. Her research focuses on biomaterials and implantable medical devices for musculoskeletal system, including calcium phosphate based-bioceramics, functionalized implants for diseased bone repair (i.e., osteoporosis, osteosarcoma), and cellular interaction between host and implant. Siyu received an award sponsored by Biomaterials Science for her talk entitled ‘Biomimetic conch-shell structural (Mn, Co) co-doped piezoelectric scaffolds for anti-tumor therapy and bone regeneration’

Hang Ping received his PhD degree in materials processing engineering (2017) from the Wuhan University of Technology. He is currently a professor in Wuhan University of Technology. His research interests mainly focus on bioprocessing-inspired synthesis and fabrication. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers as coauthors, authorized 6 invention patents in China, and hosted 3 projects from national natural science foundation of China.Hang received an award sponsored by Materials Horizons for his talk entitled ‘Bioprocessing-inspired intrafibrillar collagen mineralization with megapascal contractile prestresses’

Jan Grzelak was born in 1993 in Warsaw, Poland. He obtained his bachelor´s (B.Sc.) and  master´s degrees (M.Sc.) in Nanostructure Engineering from University of Warsaw. In 2017, he was granted a “la Caixa” INPhINIT Fellowship to pursue a PhD degree in Materials Science at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), under the supervision of Prof. Anna Roig Serra and Dr. Martí Gich Garcia, in the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group. In October 2021, he obtained his PhD with Cum Laude qualification for his doctoral thesis entitled “Magnetic and fluorescent mesoporous silica nanorods towards liver theranostic uses”. Later, he pursued an additional master’s degree in Biomedicine at the University of Barcelona. In January 2023, he started working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project “Bio-inspired AntiMicrobial Bone Bioceramics: Deciphering contact-based biocidal mechanisms” (BAMBBI) in the research line of Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration led by Prof. Maria Pau Ginebra at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), where he works on the development of calcium phosphate surfaces with tailored nanotopographies. Jan was awarded a prize sponsored by Biomaterials Science for his talk entitled ‘Tailoring high-aspect-ratio antimicrobial calcium phosphate nanotopographies: Effect of processing parameters’

Dr. Zhibo Yang obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Shandong University in 2019 and subsequently earned his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences （SICCAS）, in 2024. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at SICCAS.Dr. Yang’s research is centred on the design and functional preparation of bioinspired biomaterials, with a particular emphasis on the development of flexible bioceramic-based materials for bone regeneration applications. His innovative work has led to the publication of eight papers in journals such as Matter and Biofabrication. Additionally, he has filed two Chinese national invention patents. He’s won the Silver Award at the 2022 TERMIS-AP Virtual Student Paper Contest and the Young Scientist Award at the 34th Conference and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine. Zhibo was awarded a prize sponsored by Biomaterials Science for his talk entitled ‘Naturally Derived Flexible Bioceramics for flat bones regeneration’

Song Chen is an associate professor at Soochow University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Uppsala University, Sweden in 2016. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and in Konstanz University in Germany. In 2019, he joined Orthopaedic Institute of Soochow University. He is interested in biomineralization and bioceramics. His research aims to advance understanding of the natural biomineralization processes, such as those involved in the formation of bone and teeth. Drawing inspiration by these natural strategies, he works on designing and fabricating advanced bioceramics for applications in orthopedics, dentistry, and tissue engineering. Song was awarded a prize sponsored by Materials Horizons for his talk.

Biomaterials Science was proud to sponsor ICBZM2017, which took place this year in Tokyo, from the 18^th to the 20^th October. During the conference two Biomaterials Science Poster prizes were awarded.

Winners of the Biomaterials Science poster prize were;

Sarah Ward, (University of Massachusetts), for her poster presentation on ‘Polymer Zwitterion Prodrugs as Chemotherapeutics’.

Sarah Ward with Professor Todd Emrick

Erik Liu, (University of Washington), for his poster presentation on ‘Expression of EK Fusion Proteins to Enhance Protein Kinetics and Stability’.

Erik Liu with Professor Shaoyi Jiang

Congratulations to both Sarah and Erik!

Congratulations to Kristel Tjandra from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Isha Haridass from Curtin University, Perth, Australia and Younus Mohammad from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, who won the Biomaterials Science poster prize at the recent Drug Delivery Australia 2016 conference in Sydney, Australia.

Congratulations to Giulia Ballerin from the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia and Shadabul Haque from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia for winning the Speaker Presentation prize, and received a bursary to attend the CRS meeting in Boston in 2017.

Kristel Tjandra’s winning poster was titled “Targeted Delivery of Doxorubicin through Conjugation to Phage-Display Selected Peptide“; Isha Haridass’ winning poster was about “Space- and Time-resolved Investigation of Diffusion Properties and Metabolic Changes of Human Skin Following Macromolecule Delivery by Microprojection Arrays” and Younus Mohammad’s poster tackled the topic of  “Investigating the effects of Tween 80 on sterically stabilising non-lamellar liquid crystalline nanoparticles of selachyl alcohol“.

Giulia Ballerin talked about “How to Exploit Pseudomonas aeruginosa Tolerance: β-Lactam Antibiotic Nasal Delivery for Chronic Respiratory Infections” and Shadabul Haque discussed “A Comparison of the Lung Clearance Kinetics, Pathways and Safety of Inhaled Solid Lipid Nanoparticles and Liposomes“.

Drug Delivery Australia 2016, hosted by the Australian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society, was held in Sydney on 27 – 28^th October 2016.

RSC Materials Chemistry Division Poster Symposium

This is your last chance to attend RSC Materials Chemistry Division Poster Symposium as the final registration deadline is just a few days away. Be sure to register by 15 November 2016 to secure your place.

For full details of speakers and conference themes, please visit the event web page.

Mr. Dirk Steinhilber
P051 – Multifunctional endritic Polyglycerol Nano- and Microgels for Encapsulation and Release of Functional Biomacromolecules

Ms. Aya Tsubokura (not pictured)
Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University
P108 – Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell on the Single Line Pattern in Nano-Size Fabricated on the Electron Beam Reactive Mask Material

Mr. Mitsuru Naito
Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo
P122 – Phenylboronate functionalized polyion complex micelles as ATP-sensitive smart delivery system of siRN

Mr. Mitsuru Naito and Dr Liz Dunn

Mr. Dirk Steinhilber & Dr Liz Dunn

Each student received a Biomaterials Science Prize certificate, presented by Dr Liz Dunn, Managing Editor of Biomaterials Science as well as an RSC book.

Congratulations to Jinzi Zheng from the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada, who won the Biomaterials Science poster prize at the recent NanoBio 2012 conference in Seattle, USA.

Jinzi Zheng’s winning poster was titled “PET/CT Imaging of the Heterogeneous Distribution of [64Cu]-Iodine Liposomes in Orthotopic Mouse Cervical Tumors”.

NanoBio 2012 was held 23^rd – 26^th July 2012.