Symposium C-9: "Nano-Medical Materials II -Bioceramics-"
Co-organized by Biomaterials center, National Institute for Materials Science(NIMS) And Division of Ceramics in Medicine, Biology and Biomimetics, The Ceramic Society of Japan(tentative)

Scope
Recently nano-medical materials have been widely studied in a variety of medical applications such as implant for soft tissue, implant for hard tissue, tissue engineering, biosensor, biotips, DDS, etc. to achieve the breakthrough. In this symposium many contributed papers and several invited papers will be presented for the following topics. Please take a contact with the chairpersons and get detailed information.

Topics
* Bioceramics, Biopolymer, composites, etc.
* Self-organization, Self-assembly
* Nano-therapy
* Nano-diagnostics
* Medical Applications
* Others

Invited Speakers (Tentative)
Richard E. Riman (Dept. of Ceramic and Materials Engineering, The State Univ. of New Jersey, USA)
Akiyoshi Osaka (Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Japan)
Kiyoshi Okada (Dept. of Metallurgy and Ceramics Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Masayuki Okazaki (Dept. of Biomaterials Science, Hiroshima University, Japan)
Tetsuro Ogawa (Life care Dept. Pentax LTD, Japan)
Toshihiro Kasuga (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Mamoru Aizawa (Dept. of Chemistry, Sophia University)
Sung Wan Kim (Dept. of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical chemistry, Univ. of Utah, USA)
Swee-Hin Teoh (Div. of Bioengineering, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Xingdong Zhang (National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, China)

Chairperson
Dr. Junzo Tanaka¹⁾
Director of Biomaterials center, National Institute for Materials Science(NIMS)
Kimihiro Yamashita¹⁾
Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Hisatoshi Kobayashi²⁾
Biomaterials center, NIMS
E-mail: KOBAYASHI.Hisatoshi@nims.go.jp
Yuji Miyahara
Biomaterials center NIMS
Akiyoshi Taniguchi
Biomaterials center, NIMS
Hidenoro Otsuka
Biomaterials center, NIMS