The biomaterial industry: perspectives on challenges to achieve clinical success with medical devices
    
报告时间：10月18日  9:30 （周二）
报告地点：材料学院第一会议室（二楼）
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报告人介绍：

        David F. Williams教授是世界生物材料领域国际公认的著名专家，曾担任国际著名学术期刊Biomaterials杂志主编。现为国际组织工程与再生医学学会主席，英国皇家工程学院院士，欧洲科学院院士。1996年，Williams教授因其“对生物材料科学做出的杰出贡献”被欧洲生物材料学会授予“乔治温特奖”。他的研究邻域包括: Biocompatible Materials; Tissue Engineering; Polypropylenes; Surgical Mesh; Prostheses and Implants。

Professor Williams is one of the world’s leading authorities on biomaterials and implantable medical devices, with 40 years experience in the academic, governmental, and industrial aspects of this business. He was at the University of Liverpool, UK, until the end of 2007 where he established one of the world’s first bio-materials research laboratories in 1967 and, over the following years a Department of Clinical Engineering.

Professor Williams was trained as a metallurgist, obtaining a First Class Honours Degree, a Ph.D. and a D.Sc, all at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Founding Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering of the International Societies of Biomaterials. He has received awards from the main biomaterials societies in the USA, UK, Europe and India. In 2007 he received the highest award of the US Society for Biomaterials and also of the UK Institute of Materials (The Chapman Medal). In 2001 he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has published close to 400 scientific papers and written or edited 35 books. On leaving the University of Liverpool in 2007, he was given the title of Emeritus Professor and is now partner in a consulting company, Morgan & Masterson in Brussels. He also took up the position of Director of International Affairs at the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, North Carolina, USA and Visiting Professor at universities in Beijing, and Shanghai in China, and at the University of New South Wales, Australia, as well as in the University of Cape Town. He is Editor-in-Chief of Biomaterials, the world’s leading journal in its field.