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First of all, I would like to share the great pleasure of the
successful five-day symposium with every participant in the 5th
Iketani Conference which was held in Kagoshima from April1S
(Tuesday) to 22 (Saturday), 1995. Outstanding speakers
enthusiastically presented their up-to-the-minute results.
Relatively little time was allotted for each presentation to ensure
asdnuch time. as possible for intensive discussions on the
particular topics that had just been p esented: I was delighted to
see that the lectures were of high quality, and the discu,
ssionswere lively, exciting, and productive in a congenial
atmosphere. We also had 92 papers in the poster .session, in which
young (and relatively young) scientists made every effort to
present the novel results of their research in advanced
biomaterials and drug delivery systems (DDS). I believe some of the
research is most promising and will become noteworthy in the
twenty-first century. It was a privilege for me to deliver a
lecture at the special session of the symposium. In my introductory
remarks, I pointed out five key terms in multifaceted biomaterials
research: materials design, concept or methodology, devices,
properties demanded, and fundamentals. I am confident that
innovative progress in device manufacturing for end-use, e.g.,
artificial organs, vascular grafts, and DDS, can be brought about
only through properly designed advanced materials that exhibit the
desired functionality at the interface with any living body."
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