Journal of Functional Biomaterials — Editors

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Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Francesco Puoci
Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università della Calabria, Edificio Polifunzionale, Arcavacata di Rende (CS) 87036, Italy
Tel. +39 0984 493151; Fax: +39 0984 493298
Website: http://www.unical.it/portale/portaltemplates/view/view.cfm?18749
E-Mail: francesco.puoci@unical.it
Interests: molecularly imprinted polymers; functional materials for biomedical applications

Associate Editor
Prof. Dr. Pankaj Vadgama
Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in Biomedical Materials, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
Tel. +44 20 7882 5151
Website: http://www.cmr.qmul.ac.uk/staff/staff.php?uid=18
E-Mail: p.vadgama@qmul.ac.uk
Interests: biosensors; interfaces; polymers; membranes

Managing Editor
Ms. Xiaohua Zhu
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
E-Mail: xiaohua.zhu@mdpi.com

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Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Takuzo Aida
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Tel. +81 3 5841 7251; Fax: +81 3 5841 7310
Website: http://macro.chem.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/AIDA_LABORATORY/AIDA.html
E-Mail: aida@macro.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Interests: bioinspired functional materials; self-assembly and organization

Dr. Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo
Departamento de Farmacia y Tecnología Farmacéutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Tel. +34 981563100; Fax: +34 981547148
Website: http://www.usc.es/i+dfarma/
E-Mail: carmen.alvarez.lorenzo@usc.es
Interests: stimuli-sensitive materials; biomimetic materials; molecularly imprinted drug delivery systems; polymeric micelles; combination products; drug-eluting medical devices
Contribution: Special Issue: Molecularly Imprinted Polymers in Biomedical Applications

Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini
Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany; Visiting Professor, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BP, UK
Tel. +44 207 594 6731; Fax: +44 207 594 6757
Website: http://www.biomat.techfak.uni-erlangen.de
E-Mail: aldo.boccaccini@ww.uni-erlangen.de
Interests: biomaterials; porous materials; scaffolds; tissue engineering; bioactive glasses; composite materials; waste recycling; carbon nanotubes; electrophoretic deposition; vascularization; bioceramics; biofabrication; bioactive coatings; drug delivery
Contribution: In other journals:
Special Issue: Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Special Issue: Biodegradability of Materials in Biomedical Applications 2011
Special Issue: Biodegradability of Materials in Biomedical Applications 2011

Dr. Francesco Cilurzo
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Milano, via Balzaretti 9, 20133 Milano, Italy
Tel. +39 2 50324664
Website: http://www.farmacia.unimi.it/Facolta/Personale/DocentiRicercatori/CILURZO-FRANCESCO-05Q_ITA_HTML.html
E-Mail: francesco.cilurzo@unimi.it
Interests: biodegradable scaffold; drug eluting stent; pressure sensitive adhesive; drug delivery

Prof. Dr. Fu-Zhai Cui
Department of MS&E, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Website: http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/mseen/4025/2010/20101217164216623697462/20101217164216623697462_.html
E-Mail: cuifz@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Interests: biomaterials; bone and nerve tissue engineering; interactions of cell and materials

Prof. Dr. Qingling Feng
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tel. +86 10 62782770; Fax: +86 10 62771160
Website: http://www.mse.tsinghua.edu.cn/faculty/fengql/enindex.htm
E-Mail: biomater@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Interests: biomineralization; tissue engineering; antibacterial materials

Prof. Dr. Jianjun Guan
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2041 College Road, Columbus, OH, USA
Tel. +1 614 2929743; Fax: +1 614 2921537
Website: http://www.ecr6.ohio-state.edu/mse/faculty/guan/
E-Mail: guan.21@osu.edu
Interests: tissue engineering; drug delivery; bioactive polymers; hydrogels; biomaterial surface modification

Dr. Richard Hoogenboom
Supramolecular Chemistry group, Department of Organic Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Tel. +31 9 264 4482
Website: http://www.sc.ugent.be/
E-Mail: richard.hoogenboom@ugent.be
Interests: stimuli-responsive polymers; poly(2-oxazoline)s; functional polymers; supramolecular polymers

Prof. Dr. Kazunori Kataoka
University of Tokyo, Department of Materials Engineering, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Tel. +81 3 5841 7138; Fax: +81 3 5841 7139
Website: http://www.bmw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/index.html
E-Mail: kataoka@bmw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Interests: block copolymers; drug delivery systems; polymeric micelles; gene delivery; biomaterials; self-assembly; smart materials; nanomedicine; gene therapy

Prof. Dr. Joachim B. Kohn
The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 145 Bevier Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Website: http://www.njbiomaterials.org/web/index.php?p=flabs&s=8293
E-Mail: kohn@rutgers.edu
Interests: biocompatibility of medical implant materials; biomedical materials; tissue engineering; design of new degradable polymers

Prof. Dr. J. Kent Leach
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Tel. +1 530 7549149; Fax: +1 530 7545739
Website: http://www.bme.ucdavis.edu/
E-Mail: jkleach@ucdavis.edu
Interests: cell-instructive biomaterials; composites; ceramics; hydrogels; drug delivery; cell transplantation vehicles

Prof. Dr. Evangelos Manias
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Website: http://zeus.plmsc.psu.edu/
E-Mail: jfb@plmsc.psu.edu
Interests: polymer and organic materials; soft materials; nanostructures; nanocomposites
Contribution: Special Issue: Stimuli Responsive Biomaterials

Prof. Dr. Vladimir M. Mirsky
Faculty of Natural Sciences / Nanobiotechnology, Lausitz University of Applied Sciences, 01968 Senftenberg, Germany
Tel. +49 3573 85917; Fax: +49 3573 85809
Website: http://hs-lausitz.mirsky.de/
E-Mail: vmirsky@hs-lausitz.de
Interests: self-assembling monolayers; electrochemistry; lipid membranes; molecular imprinting; biomimetic membranes; affinity sensors; conducting polymers; surface plamsmon resonance; plasmonic nanoparticles; combinatorial methods; biosensors; chemosensors; interface

Prof. Dr. Prabhas Moghe
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey 08854, USA
Tel. +1 732 445 4500 X6315
Website: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~moghe
E-Mail: moghe@rutgers.edu
Interests: cell-material interactions; nanobiomaterials for cell targeted therapies; bioactive polymers

Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
Tel. +49 6131 379 151; Fax: +49 6131 379 350
Website: http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/groups/muellen/
E-Mail: muellen@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
Interests: new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry; multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures; functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes; dyes and laser writing into polymers; chemistry and physics of single molecules; molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices; materials for lithium or hydrogen storage; biosynthetic hybrids; nanocomposites
Contribution: In other journals:
Special Issue: New Polymer Synthesis Reactions

Prof. Dr. Hao Song
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, 637457 Singapore
Tel. +65 6513 8079; Fax: +65 6791 6905
Website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/SONGHAO/
E-Mail: songhao@ntu.edu.sg
Interests: electrode materials for biofuel cells & biosensors; genetic engineering for biomaterials synthesis; cell-materials interaction; bionanomaterials

Prof. Dr. Yasuhiko Tabata
Department of Biomaterials, Field of Tissue Engineering, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, 53 Kawara-cho Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
Tel. +81 75 7514121; Fax: +81 75 7514646
Website: http://www.frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp/te02/index-j.html
E-Mail: yasuhiko@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Interests: biodegradable polymeric materials; hydrogels and their medical applications; tissue engineering; mucosal vaccination; drug delivery systems

Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil
Institute of Organic Chemistry III, Macromolecular Chemistry & Biomaterials , University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Tel. +49 731 5022870; Fax: +49 731 5022883
Website: http://www.uni-ulm.de/oc3/html/prof__weil.html
E-Mail: tanja.weil@uni-ulm.de
Interests: functional biopolymers; biomimetic materials; self-assembly sSmart materials; biohybrid materials; hyper branched polymers; biomaterials; drug delivery systems; nanomedicine; nanoparticles; stimuli responsive materials

Prof. Dr. Bing Xu
Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 Waltham, MA 02454, USA
Tel. +1 781 7365201; Fax: +1 781 7362516
Website: http://people.brandeis.edu/~bxu/
E-Mail: bxu@brandeis.edu
Interests: biofunctional materials; nanomaterials; biomedicine; molecular drug delivery; cancer therapy; biomedical diagnostics; biomimetics

Dr. Xuebin Yang
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Group Department of Oral Biology, Leeds Dental Institute University of Leeds Worsley Building Clarendon Way Leeds LS2 9LU United Kingdom
Tel. +44 113 3436162
Website: http://lmbru.leeds.ac.uk/people/our-people/dr-xuebin-yang/
E-Mail: X.B.Yang@leeds.ac.uk
Interests: stem cell therapy; tissue engineering; multi-layer cell sheet technology; biomaterial scaffold; surface modification; biomimetics; cell-materials interaction; biological testing; in vivo models; gene therapy

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