The recipient of 2015 Lee Hsun Lecture Series—Lee Hsun Lecture Award, Prof. Diego Mantovani from Laval University, Canada visited Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR, CAS) from September 12 to 16, 2016.

During the visit, Prof. Diego Mantovani delivered a lecture entitled “NanoMaterials and NanoTechnology for Innovative Biomaterials and Health Applications”. He presented a profound look at how nanotechnology can impact materials, surfaces and interfaces, and how the resulting unique properties allowed biomedical functional applications to progress.

Prof. Diego Mantovani is the Director of Laboratory for Biomaterials and Bioengineering at Laval University, in Quebec City. He focuses on surface modifications by plasma, thin polymer functional films, cell-materials interactions, degradable metals, and scaffolds and bioreactors for the regeneration, reparation, and replacement of cardiovascular tissue. His team was one of the first in the world to develop biological degradable iron-base alloy. They developed the new Fe-Mn alloy, electro-deposition technology for implanting micro device and Nano-coating technology based on plasma for health applications. Prof. Diego Mantovani and his team also developed a new approach for natural materials functioning as cellular stents which can make it possible for vascular wall to regenerate in bioreactor under stress and physiological conditions. 

Prof. Diego Mantovani was president of the Canadian Society for Biomaterials (2008-2009), member of the Executive Committee of World Biomaterials Congress in 2016 in Montreal, Canada and Chair of the International Symposium on Surfaces and Interfaces for Biomaterials.

Prof. YANG Rui, the Director of IMR presents the plaque of Lee Hsun Lecture Series to Prof. Diego Mantovani. (Image by IMR)

Prof. Diego Mantovani delivers a lecture. (Image by IMR)