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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 30, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jun 20, 2025

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Luke P. Lee
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Title: Nanomedicine via BIGHEART
Luke P. Lee is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. After more than a decade in the industry, he joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1999 and later became the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor and the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor at Berkeley. Additionally, he was the Chair Professor in Systems Nanobiology at ETH Zürich. He also served as the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor and Associate President for International Research and Innovation at the National University of Singapore. He founded the Institute for Quantum Biophysics at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. He is recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He has received multiple awards for his contributions to the convergence of biology, physics, and engineering, which have advanced translational medicine. These accolades include the IEEE William J. Morlock Award, NSF Career Award, Fulbright Scholar Award, and the HoAm Prize. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and has filed 60 international patents.
Prof. Thomas J. Webster
Brown University, USA
Title: Eliminating Implant Infections with Nanomedicine: 30,000 Successful Human Cases and Still Counting
Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 129) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 30,000 patients. His technology is also being used in commercial products to improve sustainability and renewable energy. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.
Prof. Anne-Marie Caminade
CC-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France
Title: Dendrimers as nanotools for materials and medicine.
Anne-Marie Caminade is a Director of Research Exceptional Class at the CNRS and Deputy Director of the Coordination Chemistry Laboratory in Toulouse, France. She is the creator of phosphorus dendrimers, which are large, highly branched molecules, also known as "molecular trees". The modification of the terminal functions of dendrimers (the equivalent of tree leaves) offers properties in different fields such as catalysis, nanomaterials, or health (2 start-ups have emerged from her research work in this field). She is the author of about 560 publications (h index = 80) and 18 patents.
Prof. Patrik Schmuki
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Title: Single Atoms on Nanostructures: Anchoring, Properties, Applications
Patrik Schmuki is a world-leading researcher in electrochemical materials science, photoelectrochemistry, and photocatalysis. He is widely recognized for pioneering the electrochemical growth of self-organized nanotubular transition metal oxide layers and their applications in photocatalysis. Over the past decade, his work has focused on titania-based and other functional oxide nanostructures, most recently exploring single-atom noble metal co-catalysts for photocatalytic hydrogen generation.

His scientific impact is demonstrated by over 750 peer-reviewed publications, more than 70,000 citations, and an h-index of 132. A Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher from 2013 to 2021, Schmuki has been honored as a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, the International Society of Electrochemistry, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Among his numerous awards are the NACE H.H. Uhlig Award, the ECS Volta Award, the ECS H.H. Uhlig Award, the Rudolf Zahradnik Award, the Giulio Natta Award, and the Heinz Gerischer Award. He has also received the prestigious Reinhart Koselleck Funding from the German Research Foundation and an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant.

Schmuki studied Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and earned his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 1992. After research stays at Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) and the National Research Council of Canada, he became Associate Professor for Microstructuring of Materials at EPFL Lausanne. Since 2000, he has served as Full Professor and head of the Institute for Surface Science at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. In addition to his primary appointment, Schmuki has been a guest principal investigator or visiting professor at institutions in France, Saudi Arabia, and the Czech Republic.
Prof. Zhuang Liu
Soochow University, China
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Prof. Hong Liu
Shandong University, China
Title: Material Cues Regulating Stem Cell fate for Cell Therapy of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor Hong Liu is currently a distinguished Professor of Materials Science in Shandong University, and University of Jinan, China He received his PhD degree in 2001 from Shandong University (China). His current research interest focuses mainly on photo-electrical functional materials, biosensors, tissue engineering and stem cells, especially the interaction between stem cell and nanostructured biomaterials. Until now, he was awarded more than 50 patents and published more than 400 papers including, Iaturewith total citation of over 43000 and H-index of 87. In 2009, he was awarded as Distinguished Young Scholar by National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was included in the Clarivate Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers 2018-2024 list. Two sci-tech achievements worth 10 million RMB in his group have been transferred and industrialization. In 2023, as editor-in-chief, he launched a new journal, BMEMat . (Biomedical Engineering Materials, Wiley Publisher).
Prof. Jieshan Qiu
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Title: Functional carbon materials via molecular chemical engineering strategy
Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 980+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Soc. Rev., etc., with citations of 75750+ times and h-index of 136 (google scholar), and his work has been featured on 70 covers of international journals. He has been invited to give 180+ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 200+ Chinese and International patents. He has been honored with 30+ prestigious awards and prizes including the First-class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies from the Education Ministry of China and Liaoning Province. He is a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2024 and by Elsevier from 2019 to 2024 in the field of chemical engineering science. Right now, he is the Associate Editor of Battery Energy (Wiley), Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier), Carbon Innovation (Wiley), Carbon & Hydrogen (Wiley) and Biochar X (Springer). Previously, he has served the Associate Editor of other three international journals, including Carbon (Elsevier), FlatChem (Elsevier) and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (ACS).