Frontiers of Science and Society – Rustum Roy Lecture

James H. Adair is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Bioengineering and Pharmacology at The Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching interests most recently include biological-nanoscale composite particulates for nanomedical applications, based on colloid and interfacial chemistry, and material chemistry. Dr. Adair received his B.S. in Chemistry (1975) and M.S. (1979) and Ph.D.…

Delbert E. Day is Curators’ Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering and Senior Investigator (formerly Director) of the Graduate Center for Materials Research at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the former chairman and president of MO-SCI Corporation. His research interests include glasses for biomedical applications, the containerless processing of glass in…

Wolfgang Rossner is Research Manager at Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany. He earned his diploma degree and his PhD in materials science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) in 1980 and 1985, respectively. He then joined Siemens AG Corporate Research and Development as a research scientist for piezoelectric and ferroelectric ceramics, scintillator crystals, phosphors …

AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE? Role of Bio-Ceramic Technology, Socio-Economic and Ethical issues The late Dr. Larry Hench was University Professor, Biomedical Engineering Program, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, Professor and Director of Special Projects at the University of Central Florida, Visiting Professor at Kings College/Guy’s Hospital University of London, Guest Faculty at the Department of Bioengineering…