We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2008 Biomaterials Student Travel Awards, which support students attending the International Conference on Medical Materials, Devices & Regenerative Medicine and Workshop in Nepal.
D.F. Williams, Editor in Chief for Biomaterials, will present the awards during the conferece taking place 23-25 November, 2008.
The recipients are:
Piyali Basak, Materials Science Centre, IIT Kharagpur
India
S.Z Yow, National University of Singapore
T A Sonia, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science and
Technology
Poojappura, Kerala, India
J I Dawson, Institute of Developmental Sciences
University of Southampton, UK
V B Morris, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science and
Technology
Poojappura, Kerala, India
A Thirugnanam, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Deepti Dyondi, Biosciences and Bioengineering
IIT Bombay, Powai, Maharashtra, India
S G Pandva, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
IIT Kanpur, India
Acta Biomaterialia Acta Biomaterialia publishes manuscripts in biomaterials science, emphasizing relationships among structure, function and properties at all length scales.
Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal
Acta Materialia Inc is delighted to announce the creation of this new award to recognize excellence in research and development in the field of biomaterials.
The winner of the 2008 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal is Professor Robert Langer of MIT.
Biomaterials covers the interface between materials and biological sciences – all aspects from fundamental biomaterials science to clinical applications of biomaterials in the delivery of healthcare.
Biomaterials is the top-cited journal in the ISI Materials Science Biomaterials Category. The journal is constantly innovating to ensure it says at the forefront of biomaterials research.
In 2008, Biomaterials introduced a Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Section and Biomaterials Snapshots – where the most complex scientific data is summarized in one illustration.
A new conference, Biomaterials Asia, is also planned for 5-8 April 2009 in Hong Kong. Find out more on the conference website. www.biomaterialsasia.com
New Journal for 2008 - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materialsis an engineering journal specialising in theoretical and experimental mechanical properties of biomedical materials, covering both tissues and biomaterials, as well as practical applications of materials in medical devices
We are delighted to announce a new journal for 2008. Edited by D. Taylor, Trinity College, Dublin, the journal is concerned with the mechanical deformation, damage and failure under applied forces, of biological material (at the tissue, cellular and molecular levels) and of biomaterials, i.e. those materials which are designed to mimic or replace biological materials.
Fatigue and durability of Nitinol stents Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Issue 2, April 2008
Pelton, A.R.; Schroeder, V.; Mitchell, M.R.; Gong, X.Y.; Barney, M.; Robertson, S.W.
A new conference, Biomaterials Asia, is also planned for 5-8 April 2009 in Hong Kong. Find out more on the conference website. 
