Symposium C-8: "Nano-medical Materials I -Bioinspired Materials and Systems-"

Scope
Remarkable progress of biosciences promotes the development of biomedical materials, especially "nano-medical materials" based on the BIOINSPIRED concept. This C-8 symposium would be performed with C-9 and mainly we would like to discuss recent studies on bioinspired materials, biocompatible materials, soft materials for tissue engineering, organic and inorganic hybrids and so on. Many contributed papers and several invited speakers will be presented for the above topics. We welcome the speakers or poster presentations for the following topics.

Topics
* Bioinspired materials
* Biocompatible materials
* Organic-inorganic hybrids
* Hydrogels
* Tissue Engineering
* Others

Invited Speakers (Tentative)
Prof. Alexandar V. Kabanov (College of Pharmacy, University of Nebraska Medical Center)
Prof. Jindrich Kopecek (CCCD, University of Utah)

Chairpersons
Prof. Mitsuru Akashi^1,2), Kagoshima University
E-mai: akashi@apc.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
Prof. Yasuo Suda, Kagoshima University
Prof. Takao Aoyagi, Kagoshima University
Dr. Takahisa Taguchi, AIST
Dr. Hajime Ohgushi, AIST