Materials Today Bio is a multidisciplinary journal focused on the interface between biology and materials science, chemistry, physics, engineering, and medicine. From the design and assembly of novel structures, their functionalization and interaction with biological systems to bioimaging, therapies and diagnostics in healthcare, the journal will capture the most exciting advances and discoveries within this field.

Part of the Materials Today family, Materials Today Bio offers authors rigorous peer review, rapid decisions, and high visibility. The editors welcome comprehensive articles, short communications and reviews on topics including but not limited to:

• Biomaterials
• Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
• Cell encapsulation and cell engineering
• Biomolecular and biomacromolecular Engineering
• Biofabrication
• Biohybrid Materials
• Nanomedicine and bionanotechnology
• Biosensors including BioMEMS, BioNEMS
• Lab-on-a chip and organ-on-a chip
• Actuators and soft/bioelectronics
• Bioimaging and diagnosis
• In vitro biological models
• Biological soft and biological matter
• Hydrogels
• Drug and gene delivery
• Biopolymers
• Bioinspired surfaces and interfaces
• Synthetic biology
• Bio-based materials

Editorial board

Editor in Chief

  • João Mano
    University of Aveiro Chemistry Department, Aveiro, Portugal

Editorial Board

  • Insung S. Choi PhD
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science And Technology Department of Chemistry, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  • Luisa De Cola
    Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
  • Changyou Gao PhD
    Zhejiang University Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Hangzhou, China
  • Ali Khademhosseini PhD
    Room 4528, 4th Floor,California Nanosystems Institute,UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Pavel Levkin PhD
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Inst. of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Bin Liu PhD
    National University of Singapore, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
  • Phillip Messersmith
    University of California Berkeley Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Berkeley, California, United States
  • David Mooney PhD
    Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The Mooney Lab: Laboratory for Cell and Tissue Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • Lorenzo Moroni PhD
    University of Maastricht, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Fergal O'Brien PhD
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Dept. of Anatomy, Dublin, Ireland
  • Richard O.C. Oreffo PhD
    University of Southampton Institute of Developmental Science, Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Kun Qian PhD
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai, China
  • Carlos Rodríguez-Cabello PhD
    Universidad de Valladolid, Bioforge Labs, Valladolid, Spain
  • Ana Cecília Roque PhD
    Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Chemistry Department, Caparica, Portugal
  • Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez PhD
    University of Glasgow, Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Tatiana Segura PhD
    Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
  • Martina Stenzel PhD
    UNSW Australia, Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design CAMD, Sydney, Australia
  • Emmanuel Stratakis PhD
    Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Irakleio, Greece
  • Shoji Takeuchi PhD
    The University of Tokyo, Ctr. for InterNatl. Research on MicroMechatronics (CIRMM), IIS, Tokyo, Japan
  • Luisa Torsi PhD
    Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Dipart. di Chimica, Bari, Italy
  • Anthony S. Weiss PhD
    The University of Sydney, McCaughey Chair in Biochemistry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Fu-Jian Xu
    Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Centre of Advanced Elastomer Materials, Beijing, China
  • Xian-Zheng Zhang PhD
    Wuhan University, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education & Department of Chemistry, Wuhan, China