Conference Chairman

Professor David F. Williams

Avenue de la Foret 103,1000 Brussels, Belgium

Emeritus Professor, University of Liverpool, UK
Professor and Director of International Affairs, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, North Carolina, USA
Visiting Professor, Christiaan Barnard Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cape Town, South Africa
Visiting Professorial Fellow, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 

Professor Williams is the Editor-in-Chief of Biomaterials. He has had 40 years experience in the biomaterials, medical device and tissue engineering fields. During his research career he has published over 30 books and around 400 papers, and has received the major awards from the US, European and Indian societies of biomaterials. He has been a scientific adviser to the European Commission and written many Opinions on which European laws in health technology and nanotechnology are based.  In 1999 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his contributions to engineering in medicine.

Professor Williams left the University of Liverpool, UK, in 2007, where he has been Head of Clinical Engineering and Director, UK Centre for Tissue Engineering. While retaining the title of Emeritus Professor at Liverpool, he is currently Professor and Director of International Affairs, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, North Carolina, USA, a Visiting Professor in the Christiaan Barnard Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cape Town, South Africa, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

 

Advisory Board

Shenguo Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zhong-Wei Gu, Sichuan University, China
Wei Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Young Ha Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Chong-Su Cho, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Hiroo Iwata, Kyoto University, Japan
Guoping Chen, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Teruo Okano, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan
Si-Shen Feng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Hanry Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Feng Huei Lin, Taipei, Tawian
Hsing-Wen Sung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan