4^th Annual Conference and Expo on Biomaterials February 25-26, 2019 London, UK

Dr. Laszlo SAJTI, graduated as a physicist in 2004 from the University of Szeged in Hungary, received PhD in 2007 in material sciences from the University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille in France, post-doctoral fellow between 2008-2009 with the excellence initiative of the Australian Federal Government in the Australian National University in Canberra. Later, he worked in Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. in Germany between 2009-2011 as a scientific employee then from 2011 to 2017 as head of the research group Nanomaterials. Additionally, between 2011-2017 he headed the research unit Nanoparticles in the German cluster of excellence REBIRTH - From Regenerative Medicine to Reconstructive Therapy in the Hannover Medical School. Between 2015-2017 he was responsible of the research module “Laser-based methods - switchable implant coatings with drug-releasing nanoparticles” within the interdisciplinary research cluster Biofabrication for NIFE in Germany. At present, he is head of the research group Advanced Implant Solutions at the Austrian Institute of Technology.

Development of laser-based multifunctional nanomaterials and nanocomposites, bioactive biodegradable and non-degradable implant materials and coatings, complex nanoparticles for local drug-release systems and the synthesis of ultrapure nanoparticles and nanoconjugates.

Professor Dehghani is a full time employee in the school of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney. She is the director of ARC Food Processing Training Centre, the Director of Centre of Advanced Food Enginomics, an Associate member of IChemE and a member of ARC College of expert. She has been selected by Engineers Australia as one of the top 50 Engineers for innovation in research in 2016. She has been instrumental in building an interdisciplinary research environment that stimulates the interface and intersect of engineering, science, medicine, pharmacy, and agriculture. As a result of her achievement she has received the 2017 Award of Excellence in Chemical Engineering from Australia New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineering. Her research team in collaboration with industry partners have worked together to provide pragmatic, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable solutions to a diverse range of issues, with the aim of improving lives

Her research is highly regarded, not only in academia but by industry. She has established long-term collaborations with the food and biotech private sectors and acquired substantive funding from national and international competitive grant applications. She is an inventor on 16 patents, including nine with potential end users. She has mentored more than 45 postgraduates and more than 100 honours and master researchers. She mentors several successful entrepreneurs. As a result the outcomes of her research led to establishment of a start-up Company, Trimph Pty Ltd, in 2015 by receiving over than $2 M fund from a private investor and government. This product has recently received approval from TGA for the clinical application.

Jacques DESBRIÈRES is Professor at University of Pau and Pays Adour (UPPA), Engineer from ENSC Paris and Doctor-Engineer from Grenoble University. After a position as the research engineer with Dowell Schlumberger related to the application of polymers in oil well operations, he joined Grenoble University in 1990 and then UPPA in 2004. He authored around 200 publications and 10 patents.

His research domain is concentrated on chemical modification of natural polymers and relations between their chemical structure, functional properties, and their applications. In the last years his research activities were dedicated to physico-chemistry (interfacial properties) of amphiphilic polysaccharide solutions and polysaccharide-surfactant interactions, hydrogels and particularly their characterization and their specific applications (biomedical or cosmetics applications, wastewater treatments) and new “green processes” applied to bio-sourced materials (microwave irradiation as an example). He is the member of Editorial board of Carbohydrate Polymers, Cellulose Chemistry and Technology and has teaching activities in physico-chemistry and polymer science. Finally, he is Doctor Honoris Causa of Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” in Iasi (Romania) for his outstanding input in Polysaccharide science.

Dr Joaquin Rams is full professor of the Rey Juan Carlos University, currently being the Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering and Electronics Technology. Before he has conducted research at the Complutense University of Madrid and at the Autonoma University of Madrid. He has made several research stays at the Stanford University and the University of Sussex in Brighton. He has also collaborated with other universities such as Sheffield University (UK), Queensland University (Au) and KIT (Ge), among others. He is evaluator of European Projects, as well as from other countries, and he is also Assessor of the Australian Research Council. He has been also Coordinator of the Materials Technology in the Spanish Evaluation and Prospective Agency

He has published a hundred papers in JRC journals and many invited lectures. He is PI of the Materials Science and Engineering Group at his university which has an active role in national and international projects. In the last years he has focused on the use of Magnesium alloys as biomaterials and in its modification for the optimization of its behavior.

Prof Ivan Chodák (PhD, DSc) is a senior scientist at Polymer Institute SAS in Bratislava. His scientific interests cover crosslinking of polyolefins (patented extremely efficient system for polypropylene crosslinking), multiphase systems, i.e. polymer blends and composites with polymeric matrices including nanocomposites. Investigation of biodegradable polymers belong to his most successful topics (patented material based on PHB and PLA with very high toughness, the production is under preparation). He is the author of over 150 scientific publications, 15 patents (4 of them applied in industry) HI = 24 (according to Scopus). Frequent and long-term cooperation with industry (DSM, BASF, Biomer, National Power, GE Plastics etc.)

Crosslinking of polyolefins (patented extremely efficient system for polypropylene crosslinking), multiphase systems, i.e. polymer blends and composites with polymeric matrices including nanocomposites. Investigation of biodegradable polymers belong to his most successful topics (patented material based on PHB and PLA with very high toughness, the production is under preparation).

Prof Yu-Long Yin was born on 23/01/1956 in Hunan, China. Prof. Yin attended Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, where he obtained a Bachelor degree in Biology in 1978. He attended Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China from 1979 to 1982 and Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, UK from 1994 to 1997, from which he obtained his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Animal Nutrition, respectively. Prof. Yin is married to Ms. Lihua Tao and they have a son. Prof. Yin began his academic career as an assistant professor at Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Changsha in 1986 and rose to the rank of professor in 1994. During this period, Prof. Yin was privileged to work with top scientists in advanced laboratories in the US, Germany and Canada, where he researched extensively into the subject of ideal digestibility and made notable contribution to knowledge on the subject of development and standardization of ideal digestibility in pigs. Back home in China, Prof. Yin has researched extensively and characterized virtually all the common Chinese feed ingredients used for pig feeding for their nutritive value and ileal digestibility contents. This has led to the development of up-to-date feed database used extensively in the Chinese feed industry. Apart from enhancing growth rate and profit margin in the pork industry, the development of the ileal digestibility methods and the use of ileal digestible values in feed formulation has the added advantage of reducing nitrogen and phosphorus emission to the environment, when used for feed formulation. Prof. Yin has won many international and national awards amongst which are the prestigious German Max-planck Gesellschaft Scholarship, 1985 and 1995, National Science and Technology Progress Prize of China in 1996, 1997 and 2008 amongst others. He has published a total of 364 scientific papers (131 papers in English and in Chinese), which have greatly advanced the field of animal nutrition worldwide.

Animal Production, Animal Feed, Nutrition and Physiology of Amino Acids and Protein, Gene Expression and Gene Therapy. Comparative Animal Nutrition; Growth and Development of Animals, Biology and Pathobiology of Nitric Oxide and Polyamines, Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiovascular Complications, Fetal Nutrition and Metabolism, Animal Models of Human Diseases, Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology.