Chapters - Asia Pacific

Upcoming Chapter Meetings

Oct 2022

2022 TERMIS-AP - Jeju, South Korea

Conference Dates:  October 5-8, 2022
Conference Location:  ICE JEJU
Conference Chair:  Gun-IL Im, MD, PhD
Conference Co-Chair:  Byung Soo Kim, PhD
Conference Program Chair:  Byung Hyune Choi, PhD
Host Organization:  Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society (KTERMS)
 

Oct 2023

2023 TERMIS-AP - Shatin, HONG KONG

Conference Dates:  October 17-20, 2023
Conference Location:  The Chinese University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong Science & Technology Park
Conference Chair:  Rocky Tuan, President of CUHK
Program Co-Chairs:  Raymond Tong, Chair of BME, CUHK and Ling Qin, ORT, CUHK

 

Announcements:

1. Call for Nominations

TERMIS-AP announces the call for nominations for the 2021 TERMIS-AP Awards Program.  There will be no normal TERMIS-AP Chapter conference in the year of the World Congress.  The awards will be presented to the recipients at a TERMIS-AP Local Conference in December 2021.

The deadline for the submission of nominations for the 2021 TERMIS-AP Awards Program is Thursday, August 26th, 2021.

More information available on the awards program page here.

2. Student Paper Competition

2021 TERMIS-AP Virtual Student Paper Contest
We are pleased to announce:
2021 TERMIS-AP Webinar Student Paper Contest (2021-TERMIS-SPC) will be held as an on-line international symposium on 12/18 (Sat) and 12/19 (Sun) in order to promote students for their research activity in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine in Asia and Pacific regions.  We are looking forward to your or your students participation.
Honorary Chairmen:  Prof. Yasuhiko Tabata (Kyoto U) and Prof. Jen Ming Wang (CGU)
Chairmen:  Prof. Akon Higuchi (NCU) and Prof. Guoping Chen (NIMS)
Co-Chairmen:  Jiao Jiao Li (UTS) and Haiyan Li (RMIT)
Sponsored by:

Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Royal Society of Chemistry and the
Department of Chemical Materials Engineering at the National Central University

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  November 21, 2021

Participant Requirements:

Students from TERMIS-AP region are required to be members of TERMIS.

  1. Participants of this student paper contest should be a student in universities located within the Asian-Pacific regions.
  2. Awards: TERMIS-AP Webinar Student Paper Contest (1st , 2nd and 3rd prizes).
  3. Requirement: Please kindly be a student member of TERMIS, if you are not a student member of TERMIS. If you are not a member of TERMIS, you can join easily . Please refer to: TERMIS Membership Types and TERMIS Membership Application.
  4. Please send the payment screen of student member of TERMIS or screen shot of your membership page of TERMIS together with Registration form (excel file) and Abstract (word file) as described below.
  5. Please write name of presenter, name of authors, affiliation, e-mail address, title of presentation, key words in an excel file (registration.elsx). Please make the name of excel file as your name.elsx. (if your first name is Tanjirou, family name is Kamado, and submission date is August 5, then, 8-05-Tanjirou-Kamado.xlsx)
  6. Please write abstract following the guidance of abstract template. Please make the name of word file as your name.docx. (if your first name is Tanjirou, family name is Kamado, and submission date is August 5, then, 8-05-Tanjirou-Kamado.docx)
  7. Please send (a) registration form, (b) abstract and (c) TERMIS student member certificate (jpeg or pdf file of payment certificate or your membership homepage) into termis_ap2021_ah@yahoo.co.jp.
  8. TERMIS Member Certificate: After log in (https://termis.memberclicks.net/login#/login), Go to “Edit My profile”, then you can see your name and membership No. Please take screen shot on this screen and send us.

Deadline of the submission is November 21, 2021.

If you do not receive a registration acknowledgement by the end of November, please send an mail to higuchi@ncu.edu.tw.

ACCESS to the REGISTRATION FORM

ACCESS to the ABASTRACT FORM

 

 

 

 

Foundation of TERMIS-AP Chapter

In July 2005, the TERMIS-AP Chapter was established at the Catholic University of Korea, Medical School, Seoul. Representatives from countries within the Asian-Pacific region invited to attend were: Prof. Teruo Okano (Japan), Asst. Prof. Jan-Thorsten Schantz (Singapore), Prof. Gin-Ho Hsiue (Chinese, Taipei), Prof. Ahnond Buynyaratvej (Thailand), Prof. Geoff McKeller (Australia), Prof. Ruszymah Bt Hj Idrus (Malaysia), Prof. Yilin Cao and Wei Liu (China), Prof. Minoru Ueda (Former President of ATES), Prof. Allan J. Russell (President of TERMIS), and Prof. Jöns Hilborn (President-Elect of TERMIS).

 

TERMIS-AP Continental Council

TERMIS-AP Committees

Chief Adviser: (1)

Ali Khademhosseini
 

Budget Committee: (9)

Chair: Yasuhiko Tabata

Vice Chair: Shengmin Zhang

Members:

  1. Jen Ming Yang 
  2. Gang Li  
  3. Mime Egami 
  4. Heungsoo Shin
  5. Yin Xiao
  6. Akon Higuchi
  7. Xing Zhang
     

Nominating Committee (7)

Chair: Yasuhiko Tabata

Members:

  1. Jin Ho Lee
  2. Jen Ming Yang
  3. Shengmin Zhang
  4. Akon Higuchi
  5. Guoping Chen
  6. Tim Woodfield

Awards Committee: (5)

Chair: Guoping Chen

Members:

  1. Jin Ho Lee
  2. Yasuhiko Tabata
  3. Jen Ming Yang
  4. Shengmin Zhang

 

Industry Committee (5)

Chair: Jen Ming Yang

Members:

  1. Shengmin Zhang
  2. Jin Ho Lee
  3. Yin Xiao
  4. Masahiro Kino-Oka

 

Local Conference Committee: (10)

Chair: Akon Higuchi

Members:

  1. Heungsoo Shin
  2. Dae hyeok Yang
  3. Bin Li
  4. Xing Zhang
  5. Angela Min Hwei Ng
  6. Haiyan Li
  7. Xiaomeng Li
  8. Xin Zhao  
  9. Jiao Jiao Li

TERMIS-AP By-laws

TERMIS-Asia Pacific Awards Program

Membership Dues

Award recipients

2016
  • Hai Bang Lee – Excellence Achievement Award
  • Hsing-Wen Sung – Outstanding Scientist Award
2017
  • Yilin Cao – Excellence Achievement Award
  • Wei Liu – Outstanding Scientist Award
2018
  • Teruo Okano - Excellence Achievement Award
  • Yasuhiko Tabata - Outstanding Scientist Award

 

 

TERMIS-AP Chapter Meetings

  • TERMIS-AP 2019 & 7th ASBTE
    Brisbane, Australia
    14-16 October 2019
    Conference Chairs:  Prof. Yin Xiao & Prof. Justin Cooper-White
  • TERMIS-AP 2017
    Nantong, China
    September 21-24, 2017
    Conference Chairs:  Xiaosong Gu, Xiaobin Fu and Yilin Cao
    Program Chairs:  Fei Ding and Wei Liu
  • TERMIS-AP 2016
    Tamsui, Taipei
    September 3-6, 2016
    Conference Chair:  Yu-Chen Hu
  • TERMIS-AP 2014
    Daegu, South Korea
    September 24-27
    Conference Chairs: Prof. Jin Ho Lee and Byung-hyun Min
  • TERMIS-AP 2013
    Wuzhen, China
    October 23-26
    Meeting Chairs: Dr. Yilin Cao and Dr. Wei Liu
  • TERMIS-AP 2011
    Singapore
    August 3-5, 2011
    Meeting Chair: Prof. James Goh
  • TERMIS-AP 2010
    Sydney, Australia
    September 15-17, 2010
    Meeting Chair: A/Prof. Geoffrey McKellar
  • TERMIS-AP 2008
    Taipei, Taiwan
    November 6-8, 2008
    Meeting Chairs: Professor Ging-Ho Hsiue and Professor Sheng-Mou Hou
  • TERMIS-AP 2007
    Tokyo, Japan
    December 3-5, 2007
    Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka
    Meeting Chair: Dr. Teruo Okano