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
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.