Functional Marine Biomaterials

Professor Se-Kwon Kim, PhD, currently serves as a senior professor in the Department of Chemistry and the director of the Marine Bioprocess Research Center (MBPRC) at Pukyong National University in the Republic of Korea. He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the Pukyong National University and joined as a faculty member. He has previously served as a scientist in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (1988-1989), and was a visiting scientist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (1999-2000).Professor Se-Kwon Kim was the first president of the Korean Society of Chitin and Chitosan (1986-1990) and the Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology (2006-2007). He was also the chairman for the 7th Asia-Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium, which was held in South Korea in 2006. He is one of the board members of the International Society of Marine Biotechnology and the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. Moreover, he was the editor in chief of the Korean Journal of Life Sciences (1995-1997), the Korean Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology (2006-2007), and the Korean Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology (2006-present). His research has been credited with the best paper award from the American Oil Chemist’s Society (AOCS) and the Korean Society of Fisheries Science and Technology in 2002.Professor Se-Kwon Kim’s major research interests are investigation and development of bioactive substances derived from marine organisms and their application in oriental medicine, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals via marine bioprocessing and mass- production technologies. He has also conducted research on the development of bioactive materials from marine organisms for applications in oriental medicine, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals. To date, he has authored over 600 research papers and holds 152 patents. In addition, he has written or edited more than 60 books.

• Part 1 Introduction to marine biomaterials1. Discovery and development of marine biomaterialsBesim Ben-Nissan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia2. Properties of marine biomineralsWerner Mueller, University Medical Center, Mainz, GermanyPart 2 Applications of marine products in tissue engineering3. Bone tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterialsSe-Kwon Kim4. Cardiovascular tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterialsRoberto Parravicini, University of Modena, Italy5. Skin tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterialsSylvia Colliec-Jouault, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Marine Molecules, Ifremer, France6. Liver Tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterialsChong-Su Cho, Soeul National UniversityPart 3 Applications of marine products in drug delivery systems and nano-pharmaceuticals7. Functionalisation of marine materials for drug delivery systemsSevda Senel8. Drug delivery systems and tissue engineering scaffolding using marine derived productsTiago H. Silva, University of Minho, Portugal9. Anti-inflammatory drug delivery systems using marine productsChandra P. Sharma, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, India

"...concerned with the niche areas of marine biomaterials, their properties and applications…chapters are generally thorough. Citations to the original sources are used extensively to support the text." --Biotechnology Advances