Open call for papers – Biomaterials for theranostics and tissue engineering   An official collection of WBC2024   We are delighted to announce that Biomaterials Science will be publishing one of the official themed collections for WBC2024! We are very pleased to announce an open call for papers for this collection on ‘Biomaterials for theranostics and tissue engineering’. This collection is being guest edited by Professor Lino Ferriera (UC-Biotech, Portugal) from Biomaterials Science and Professor Soo Hong Lee (Dongguk University, Korea) from WBC2024. Both t ..read more

We are very pleased to announce that Professor Lichen Yin has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Biomaterials Science. Lichen Yin is a Professor in the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University. His research interest is focused on the engineering of polymeric and/or bio-inspired nanomaterials that can overcome multiple physiological barriers and deliver biomacromolecular drugs such as nucleic acids, proteins, and peptides. His research works to create new technologies and therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, autoim ..read more

Associate Professor Khoon Lim is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and the Director of the Light Activated Biomaterials research group at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has generated 86 high impact journal publications (Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials), and raised a total of >$7.8 Million research grant funding with $5.4 Million as lead Chief-Investigator. He is currently the President of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Board of Directors of the International Society for Biofabrication, a ..read more

Donny Hanjaya-Putra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering Graduate Program, as well as Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Bachelor degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2007. He completed his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University under the mentorship of Dr. Sharon Gerecht. His postdoctoral research training was conducted with Dr. Elliot L. Chaikof at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspi ..read more

Dr. Brisbois is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical, Materials, & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia.  She completed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical School in the Department of Surgery, where she worked in the Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) laboratory under the direction of Dr. Robert H. Bartlett (Emeritus Surgeon).  She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Michigan in 2014 under the supervision of Dr. Mark E. Meyerhoff.  She obtained a B.S. degree in Che ..read more

Dr. Gallego-Perez is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and General Surgery at The Ohio State University (OSU). He was also recently appointed as the Edgar C. Hendrickson Chair in Biomedical Engineering, the Director of the Advanced Nanotherapeutics Center within the Gene Therapy Institute at OSU (2023), and a Faculty Fellow within the Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge (ERIK) at OSU. His lab’s research is aimed at developing nanotechnology-driven platforms (e.g., devices, methods, approaches, systems) for both fundamental and translational ..read more

We are delighted to highlight the Biomaterials Science 10th anniversary collection – free to read until the end of November!   Biomaterials Science is an international high impact journal exploring the science of biomaterials and their translation towards clinical use. Its scope encompasses new concepts in biomaterials design, the interaction of biomaterials with the body, and the use of materials to answer fundamental biological questions. Biomaterials Science published its first volume over 10 years ago, and since then we have published work from more than 3500 authors from over 50 ..read more

  Dr. Nuria Oliva is a ‘la Caixa’ Foundation Junior Leader Fellow and Assistant Professor at IQS Barcelona (Universitat Ramon Llull), and holds a part time Senior Lecturer Position in the department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. Her research group works at the intersection of biomaterials, biology and medicine to understand how biomaterials can be used to tackle complex human diseases, like osteoarthritis and cancer. Originally an organic chemist, she completed her PhD in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Tec ..read more

Call for papers: Injectable Hydrogels Guest Edited by Dr Khoon Lim and Dr Julieta Paez We are delighted to announce a special themed collection on Injectable Hydrogels to be published across Biomaterials Science  and Journal of Materials Chemistry B. This collection is Guest Edited by: Dr Khoon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia) Dr Julieta I Paez (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Injectable hydrogels have emerged as intelligent and versatile materials that have been proven to possess huge potential for many biomedical applications includin ..read more

Professor Yan Pang received her PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. She worked as a Postdoctoral Associate from 2014 to 2015 at Duke university, and from 2016 to 2018 at MIT. She joined the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019. Her research interests focus on the design and construction of functional biomaterials and their applications in treating various diseases, especially ocular related diseases. Read Yan’s Emerging Investigator article, Nano-based ocular drug delivery systems: an insight into the preclinical/clinical studies and their potenti ..read more