摘要
This special issue of Regenerative Biomaterials presents 13 manuscriptsprovided by participants of the China–US Forum on GrandChallenges for Biomaterials in the 21st Century. This forum washeld on November 17, 2015, in Chengdu, China and was chaired bythe Editor of Regenerative Biomaterials, Professor Xingdong Zhangand Professor Nicholas Peppas. The participants of this forum wereinternationally recognized experts from the United States ofAmerica and the Peoples Republic of China. It is noteworthy thatthe United States speakers were members of the National Academyof Engineering, Section 2. Bioengineering, and most of the Chinesespeakers were members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering orthe Chinese Academy of Sciences. The overlying theme of this forumand this resultant special issue is the impact that the biological environmentin which biomaterials will be utilized is now recognized asproviding a wide variety of significant and impactful challenges thatmust be overcome if biomaterials are to achieve clinical application.
