Biomaterials Science Blog

Do you know an early-career researcher who deserves recognition for their contribution to the biomaterials field? Biomaterials Science is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for its 2026 Lectureship and will now close on 31 January 2026. This annual award was established in 2014 to honour an early-stage career scientist who has made a significant contribution to the biomat…

It is with great pleasure that we announce Li Tang (EPFL) as the recipient of the 2025 Biomaterials Science lectureship. This award, established in 2014, honours an early-career researcher who has made significant contribution to the biomaterials field. The recipient is selected by the Biomaterials Science Editorial Board from a list of candidates nominated by the community. Read Li’s Biomaterial…

Read Yichun’s Emerging Investigator article ‘Stimulative piezoelectric nanofibrous scaffolds for enhanced small extracellular vesicle production in 3D cultures‘, DOI: 10.1039/D4BM00504J 1. How do you feel about Biomaterials Science as a place to publish research on this topic? Biomaterials Science is an excellent platform for publishing research on innovative biomaterials and biomedical engineeri…

Biomaterials Science, Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry B were pleased to support the recent Bioceramics34 conference which was held from 18 – 21 October 2024 in Shanghai, China. We were pleased to sponsor 7 Young Scientist Awards for the best presentations. Please join us in congratulating our winners and find out about some of them below!

Do you know an early-career researcher who deserves recognition for their contribution to the biomaterials field? Biomaterials Science is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for its 2025 Lectureship and will now close on 31 January 2025. This annual award was established in 2014 to honour an early-stage career scientist who has made a significant contribution to the biomat…

Open call for papers – Biomaterials for theranostics and tissue engineering An official collection of WBC2024 We are delighted to announce that Biomaterials Science will be publishing one of the official themed collections for WBC2024! We are very pleased to announce an open call for papers for this collection on ‘Biomaterials for theranostics and tissue engineering’. This collection is being gue…

We are very pleased to announce that Professor Lichen Yin has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Biomaterials Science. Submit your manuscript to Professor Yin Read Professor Yin’s Biomaterials Science articles: All the highlighted articles are currently FREE to read until January 31st 2024!

Read Khoon’s Emerging Investigator article Pristine gelatin incorporation as a strategy to enhance the biofunctionality of poly(vinyl alcohol)-based hydrogels for tissue engineering applications, DOI D3BM01172K. Check our our interview with Khoon below: How do you feel about Biomaterials Science as a place to publish research on this topic? Great journal with an awesome reach and publicity, perfe…

Read Donny’s open access Emerging Investigator article Synthetic hyaluronic acid coating preserves the phenotypes of lymphatic endothelial cells, DOI D3BM00873H. Check out our interview with Donny below: How do you feel about Biomaterials Science as a place to publish research on this topic? The Biomaterials Science is an internationally recognized journal to publish transformative research at th…

Read Elizabeth’s Emerging Investigator article Antimicrobial efficacy of a nitric oxide-releasing ampicillin conjugate catheter lock solution on clinically-isolated antibiotic-resistant bacteria, DOI D3BM00775H. Check out our interview with Dr Brisbois below: How do you feel about Biomaterials Science as a place to publish research on this topic? The Biomaterials Science journal is a premiere ven…

Dr. Gallego-Perez is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and General Surgery at The Ohio State University (OSU). He was also recently appointed as the Edgar C. Hendrickson Chair in Biomedical Engineering, the Director of the Advanced Nanotherapeutics Center within the Gene Therapy Institute at OSU (2023), and a Faculty Fellow within […]

We are delighted to highlight the Biomaterials Science 10th anniversary collection – free to read until the end of November!   Biomaterials Science is an international high impact journal exploring the science of biomaterials and their translation towards clinical use. Its scope encompasses new concepts in biomaterials design, the interaction of biomaterials with the body, […]

  Dr. Nuria Oliva is a ‘la Caixa’ Foundation Junior Leader Fellow and Assistant Professor at IQS Barcelona (Universitat Ramon Llull), and holds a part time Senior Lecturer Position in the department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. Her research group works at the intersection of biomaterials, biology and medicine to understand how biomaterials can […]

Open Call for Papers: Novel Biomedical Polymer Materials Guest Edited by Professor Huayu Tian and Professor Xuesi Chen   We are delighted to announce a special themed collection on Novel Biomedical Polymer Materials to be published across Biomaterials Science  and Journal of Materials Chemistry B. This collection is Guest Edited by: Professor Huayu Tian (Xiamen University) Professor Xuesi Ch…

Call for papers: Injectable Hydrogels Guest Edited by Dr Khoon Lim and Dr Julieta Paez We are delighted to announce a special themed collection on Injectable Hydrogels to be published across Biomaterials Science  and Journal of Materials Chemistry B. This collection is Guest Edited by: Dr Khoon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia) Dr Julieta I Paez (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Injecta…

Professor Yan Pang received her PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. She worked as a Postdoctoral Associate from 2014 to 2015 at Duke university, and from 2016 to 2018 at MIT. She joined the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019. Her research interests focus on the design and construction […]

Dr Giselle Yeo is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Group Leader at the Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. She completed her PhD in matrix protein biochemistry at the University of Sydney, then continued on with postdoctoral studies in the biofunctionalisation of materials for tissue engineering […]

Professor Zifu Li received a BSc degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2008 and a PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012. In 2013 and 2015, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. He then joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a research […]

  Chuan Zhang is a Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests focus on the developments of novel functional nucleic acids and nucleic acid-based therapeutics, nucleic acid nanotechnology and supramolecular self-assembly, as well as drug and gene delivery. He was the recipient of the Qiu Shi […]

Ester J. Kwon is an assistant professor of Bioengineering at the University of California San Diego. She earned her B.S. in Bioengineering and B.A. in Molecular & Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Washington with Suzie H. Pun and was a postdoctoral fellow […]