Biomaterials for Surgical Operation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781617795695)

Shuko Suzuki obtained PhD degree in polymer chemistry from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. After JSPS fellowship at Nara Medical University, she joined GUNZE Ltd., Japan, and is currently working as research fellow at Nara Medical University.

Yoshito Ikada has over forty year's experience as a professor at a number of universities in Japan and China in the field of biomedicine. Currently at Nara Medical University and he is also Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University and Guest Professor at Peking University. He has received the Prize of Japanese Society for Biomaterials and was President of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials for four years. He was also Chairman of National project, "Tissue Engineering" by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He authored "Tissue Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications" (Academic Press, 2006).