It is our great pleasure to announce the Second Hoffman Family Symposium, or International Symposium on “Smart Biomaterials” on March 24th and 25th, 2014, organized by WPI-MANA, NIMS.

Allan S. Hoffman (University of Washington, USA)

Tsutomu Furuzono (Kinki University, Japan)

Akihiko Kikuchi (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

Deok-Ho Kim (University of Washington, USA)

Won Jong Kim (POSTECH, Korea)

Ick-Chan Kwon (KIST, Korea)

James J. Lai (University of Washington, USA)

Byung-Heon Lee (Kyungpook National University, Korea)

Jun Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Mizuo Maeda (Riken, Japan)

Atsushi Maruyama (Tokyo Instute of Technology, Japan)

Takashi Miyata (Kansai University, Japan)

Morikazu Miura (Asahi Kasei Medical, Japan)

Ravin Narain (University of Alberta, Canada)

In-Kyu Park (Chonnam National University, Korea)

Ng Chee Ping (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Reseach and Technology, Singapore)

Masayuki Yamato (Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan)

Ryo Yoshida (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Francoise M. Winnik (Université de Montréal, Canada NIMS, Japan)

Guopin Chen (NIMS, Japan)

Jun Nakanishi (NIMS, Japan)

Mitsuhiro Ebara (NIMS, Japan)