Murugan Ramalingam is an associate professor of biomaterials and tissue engineering at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U977, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, University of Strasbourg (UdS), France. Concurrently, he holds an adjunct associate professorship at Tohoku University, Japan. He has authored over 125 publications, including several patents, relevant to biomaterials and tissue engineering. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals, including as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bionanoscience and the Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. For more about Dr. Ramalingam, see his profile on the University of Strasbourg's Biomaterials Group website. Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, FNAE, FAIMBE, is a professor of materials engineering at the National University of Singapore. He pioneered translucent biomaterials and devices, which are now marketed globally. He specializes in the design, processing, and validation of biomimetic scaffolds for the regeneration of various tissues. He is acknowledged as the number one in the field of materials by electrospinning. Ramakrishna has authored five books and over 400 international journal papers, which has attracted approximately 14,000 citations with an h-index of 54. For more about Dr. Ramakrishna, see his profile on the National University of Singapore website. Serena Best is a professor at the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials within the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. She has more than 130 publications in the field of biomaterials, and her work has contributed to the formation of two successful spinout companies. Her interests currently encompass the development of bioactive ceramics, coatings, and composites for various biomedical applications. Dr. Best is an editor of the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine and also sits on several editorial boards, including the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. For more about Dr. Best, see her profile on the University of Cambridge website.
