Symposia: Biomaterials 
                         Biomaterials 01 
                  PIC: Prof. Kundu (kundu@i3bs.uminho.pt) 
              Title: Biomaterials for 3D tissue engineered cancer/disease models 
         
        Subhas C. Kundu/Rui L Reis 
        University of Minho, Portugal, Portugal  
        Talk title: Trends in biomaterials for 3D cancer modeling for drug screening 
         
        Caroline Curtin/Lara Costard/Fergal J. O’Brien 
        RCSI Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 
        Talk title: Scaffold-based delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics for the treatment of breast cancer 
         
        Eliza Fong 
        National University of Singapore.  
        Talk title: Engineering patient-derived tumor models for personalized medicine. 
         
                         Biomaterials 02 
                  PIC: Prof. Kundu (kundu@i3bs.uminho.pt) 
              Title: Biomaterials for 3D tissue engineered cancer/disease models 
         
        Lin Wang/Zheng Wang 
        Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, China  
        Title: Nano-strategies for reversing cancer drug resistance 
         
        Umber Cheema    
        Faculty of Medical Sciences, UCL, London  
        Title: 3D models of cancer: Development of biomimetic stroma for 3D tumouroids 
         
        Zheng Wang/Lin Wang 
        Huazhong University of Science and Technology  
        Wuhan, China  
        Title: Silk protein sericin for cancer theranostics applications 
                         Biomaterials 03 
               PIC: Prof. Shimizu Tatsuya (shimizu.tatsuya@twmu.ac.jp) 
         Title: Scaling up, maturation and nerve connection in skeletal muscle tissue engineering 
        Catherine Ngan 
        St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne 
        Talk title: Neuro-mascular junction formation in muscle tissue engineering 
         
        Shoji Takeuchi 
        The University of Tokyo 
        Talk title: Fabrication of muscle tissue block  
         
        Hironobu Takahashi 
        Tokyo Women’s Medical University 
        Talk title: Fabrication of matured muscle tissues by electrical stimulation 
                         Biomaterials 04 
                  PIC: Prof. Akon Higuchi (higuchi@ncu.edu.tw) 
          Title: Biomaterials for Stem Cell Culture and Differentiation for Stem Cell Therapy 
         
        Chang Jiang 
        Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) 
        Talk title: Regulation of Cell Fate by physical cues of Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering 
         
        Guoping Chen 
        Research Center of Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science & Tsukuba 
        University (Japan) 
        Talk title: Dexamethasone-Loaded Composite Scaffolds for Osteogenic Differentiation of Human 
        Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells 
         
        Akon Higuchi 
        National Central University (Taiwan) & Wenzhou Medical University (China) 
        Talk title:  Thermoresponsive Surface for Culture and Differentiation of Stem Cells 
         
                             
                         Biomaterials 05 
                  PIC: Prof Antonella (antonella.motta@unitn.it) 
         Title: Nature-derived polymers for TERM: sources, processing standardization, products 
              validation, regulatory aspects, business opportunity, scalability 
                             
         
        Antonella Motta 
        University of Trento, Trento, Italy 
        Talk title: European Mobility programs: impact on young researcher career 
         
        Yu Chen 
        Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai; China 
        Talk title: Retina therapeutic strategies: from traditional chinese medicine to TE 
         
        Nuno Neves 
        3Bs Institute, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal 
        Talk title: Nature-inspired biomaterials combined with stem cells for advanced therapies 
         
        Gilson Khang 
        Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea 
            Application of gellan gum for the regeneration of cartilage 
        Talk title: 
         
                         Biomaterials 06 
                   PIC: Prof. Ying Yang (y.yang@keele.ac.uk) 
              Title: Smart and advanced applications of degradable biomaterials 
         
        Nick Forsyth 
        Keele University 
        Talk title: Synergetic effect of nanostructure and oxygen stress on stem cell fate 
         
        Lian Cen 
        East China University of Science and Technology 
        Talk title: The smart application of microfluidic technology for drug/biomolecule delivery in tissue 
        engineering 
         
        Giovanna Della Porta 
        University of Salerno, Italy 
        Talk title:  Biopolymer micro/nano carriers and the challenge of Synthetic Extracellular Matrix 
        design in Tissue Engineering 
         
                         Biomaterials 07 
                  PIC: Prof. Kelvin Yeung (wkkyeung@hku.hk) 
                          Title: TBC 
         
        Professor Yufeng Zheng  
        Peking University  
        Talk title: Enhanced bone regeneration with controllable degradation of biometals  
         
        Professor Donghui Zhu  
        Stony Brook University-SUNY  
        Talk title: Engineering surface topography on biodegradable metal for better regeneration   
         
        Professor Kelvin Yeung  
        The University of Hong Kong  
        Talk title: Divalent cations mediated osteogenesis   
         
                         Biomaterials 08 
                    PIC: Prof. Kim (moonskim@ajou.ac.kr) 
                          Title: TBC 
         
        James J Yoo  
        Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA 
        Talk title: In-situ tissue regeneration by biofabrication 
         
        Lorenzo Moroni 
        Maastricht University, The Netherlands 
        Talk title: What can Biofabrication do for Space and what can Space do for Biofabrication? 
         
                         Biomaterials 09 
                   PIC: Prof. Lei Yang (ylei@hebut.edu.cn) 
                          Title: TBC 
                             
         
        Prof. Zhiyong Zhang 
        Translational Research Centre of Regenerative Medicine and 3D Printing Technologies of 
        Guangzhou Medical University; National Tissue Engineering Center - South China Subcenter; State 
        Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease