keynote speakers for ic-Bms 2021

Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Masaru Tanaka

Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan

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Masaru Tanaka is a professor at Kyushu University. In the period of 1996-2000 he worked for TERUMO Co. and designed novel biocompatible polymers and commercialized as an artificial lung. In 2000 he moved to Hokkaido University and in 2007 he moved to Tohoku University. Stents covered with the self-organized porous 3D films are commercially available in the world clinical market. In 2009 he was awarded a full professorship at Yamagata University. He became a leader of Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT Program, Japan 2011-2014). He has received several awards, including the SPSJ Asahi Kasei Award for his intermediate water concept based on the role of interfacial water at materials' interphases. Intermediate water content is a good predictor of biological responses to materials and is using for high-through put materials discovery.

His recent selected papers in 5 years: Biomacromolecules 2019, 20, 2265; Langmuir 2019, 35, 2808; ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2019, 3, 981; Adv. Healthcare Mater., 2019, 8, 1900130; Science Advances 2018, 4, eaau 2426; ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2018, 4, 1591; Biomacromolecules 2017, 18, 4214; Biomacromolecules 2017, 18, 3834; Biomacromolecules 2017, 18, 1609; Macromolecules 2016, 49, 8154; Macromolecules 2016, 49,  2493; ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2016, 2, 212; Biomacromolecules 2016, 17, 3808. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7, 18096; Langmuir, 2015, 31, 7100; Adv. Healthcare Mater., 2014, 3, 775-784; Langmuir, 2014, 30, 10698; Nanomedicine, 2014, 10, 313. Also, more than 200 patents.

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Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Shinichi Tokuno

Voice Analysis and Measurement of Pathophysiology, Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Graduate School of Health Innovation, Kanagawa University of Human Services, Japan

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Shinichi Tokuno graduated from the National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan, in 1985, received the Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes from the Society of Apothecaries, London, UK, in 2001, and received the Ph.D. degree from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2001.

From 1991 to 1998, he worked at the Central Hospital of Japan Self-Defense Forces, Tokyo, Japan, doing research on medical engineering and artificial organs. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Researcher at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2000 to 2005, he worked as a military doctor mainly in the area of education and the research area of computer simulation. From 2005 to 2012, he was an Associate Professor with Defense Medicine of the National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Chief Instructor with the Medical Service School of Ground Self-Defense Force, Tokyo, Japan. From 2014 to 2019, he was a Project Associate Professor with the Voice Analysis of Pathophysiology program, and Medical School of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Since 2019, he has been Project Professor with Voice Analysis and Measurement of Pathophysiology, Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He also has been Professor of Graduate School of Health Innovation Kanagawa University of Human Services since 2019.

Research interest

His major research interests are medical engineering, especially noninvasive examination such as voice biomarker, military medicine, disaster medicine, and cardiovascular disorders.

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Keynote Speaker III

Lecturer. Yuki Akagi

Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

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Yuki Akagi is a lecturer at the University of Tokyo. She received her Ph.D. (Engineering) from the University of Tokyo on 03/2013. From 2013 to 2016, she was a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD). In 2013, she conducted studies on the physical properties and structural analysis of polymer gels at Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. In 2014-2016, she belonged to Graduate School of medicine / Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, and was engaged in study on molecular probes that respond in a specific biological environment. She took up her present position in 2016. She is engaged in a wide range of research, including the development of local drug delivery systems that respond to external stimuli, the evaluation of basic physical properties of shear stress gels, and the evaluation of surface of polymer gels. Since  September of last year, she has also been a guest editor for Processes, Polymeric Hydrogels for Biomedical.