Perface

  The aim of Taiwan-Japan Symposium on Polyscale Technologies for Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences (PT-BMES) is to create starting points of collaborations between Taiwanese and Japanese researchers on various fields of science and engineering for biomedical and environmental technologies. Through this symposium, it is hoped that researchers from both sides can co-develop new technologies to solve biomedical and environmental problems, which have definitely become the most important issues in both Taiwan and Japan societies. Despite the importance, the development of the science and technologies contains a difficulty due to the needs of interdisciplinary collaboration among multiple academic fields, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, chemical engineering, medical science, pharmaceutical science, etc. Furthermore, the establishment of future collaborative works in advanced biomedical and environmental technologies will be keystones for the scientific development of the entire Asia. The symposia between them must be fruitful for the development of the academic field in both Taiwan and Japan, which contribute greatly to the Asian societies. This symposium co-organized by the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University and the Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science will be held on September 12 (Friday) to 15 (Monday), 2014 on the campus of the National Tsing Hua University at Hsinchu and National Center of Traditional Art at I-Lan, Taiwan.

  The objective of this symposium is the promotion of interdisciplinary research for biomedical and environmental science and technologies both in Taiwan and Japan along with the intercommunication among the graduate students of both countries to build a foundation stone for the future collaboration among the scientists in Japan and Taiwan, and all Asian countries in future.

  Representing the organizing committee members, we thank to the keynote and invited speakers and welcome all of the participants to join these symposia to promote fruitful tie-up of Asian countries.

PT-BMES 2014, Organizing Chairs

Prof. Chi-Shiun Chiang

Prof. Kohei SOGA