We are pleased to announce that the 2^nd Symposium on Innovative Polymers for Controlled Delivery (SIPCD 2012) will be held from September 11-14, 2012 in Garden Hotel, Suzhou, China. The symposium, under the auspice of Chinese Chemical Society Polymer Division and Chinese Society for Biomaterials, is co-organized by Soochow University, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), and Suzhou Biobay. Much to our pleasure, we have invited worldwide top scientists in the fields of biomaterials, controlled drug delivery, protein and cell delivery, gene delivery, polymer-based diagnostics, and tissue engineering, to present their most recent research achievements and to share their cutting-edge views on the field in general.

The symposium will welcome (and limit to) approximately 350 delegates, with 32 invited lectures and about 180 poster presentations. The symposium is organized in one single session. In this way, we hope that you will not miss any important lectures. In SIPCD 2012, we will also present a featured panel discussion on "The Future of Nanomedicine" as well as a dedicated author workshop on "The Art of Writing Scientific Papers". The invited speakers are all invited to contribute a full article or mini-review paper to be published in the SIPCD 2012 Special Issue of Journal of Controlled Release (Impact Factor 7.164).

Particular attention will be given to the poster session, wherein six excellent poster awards will be presented during banquet, with each an official certificate and 300 US$ award. Please note that all accepted poster abstracts will also be published on-line in the Journal of Controlled Release.

Suzhou, about one hour away from Shanghai, is an ancient city with a history of more than 2500 years. The city is well known for its beautifully preserved centre, its exquisite gardens and its impressive system of small canals. Suzhou is surrounded by lakes and is also known as the Venice of China. Suzhou has the charm to make your stay a unique experience.

Invited Speakers：

Frank Caruso
Professor and Head of the Nanostructured Interfaces and Materials Group (NIMs)
University of Melbourne, Australia
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Editor: Chemistry of Materials

Xuesi Chen
Professor of Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Ashutosh Chilkoti
Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director of Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Materials Systems
Duke University, USA

Stefaan De Smedt
Professor and Chair of Ghent Research Group on Nanomedicines
Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Ghent University, Belgium
Associate Editor: Journal of Controlled Release

Timothy J. Deming
Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Jiandong Ding
Professor of Polymer Chemistry and Physics
Director of the Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Chinese Ministry of Education
Fudan University, China
Associate Editor: Chinese Science Bulletin

Johan F.J. Engbersen
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Chemistry
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Si-Shen Feng
Professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Associate Editor: Biomaterials, Nanomedicine

Zhihua Gan
Professor of Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
Professor of Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

David Grainger
George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Presidential Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Utah, USA

Rainer Haag
Professor of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Wim E. Hennink
Professor of Pharmaceutical Polymers
Head of the Department of Pharmaceutics
Vice Dean of Faculty of Science
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Special Issue Editor: Journal of Controlled Release

Kazunori Kataoka
Professor of Department of Materials Engineering
Professor of Division of Clinical Biotechnology at the Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine
Director of Center for NanoBio Integration
The University of Tokyo, Japan
President of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (since 2010)
President-Elect of the Controlled Release Society (since 2011)
Editor: Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition
Associate Editor: Biomacromolecules, Biomaterials

Yong-Hee Kim
Professor and Director of the Department of Bioengineering
Hanyang University, Korea
General-in-chief, Korean Society for Biomaterials

Harm-Anton Klok
Professor and Director of the Polymers Laboratory
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Associate Editor: Biomacromolecules

Sebastien Lecommandoux
Professor of the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux
University of Bordeaux, France

Doo Sung Lee
Professor of Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Vice President of the Polymer Society of Korea

Andreas Lendlein
Director of the Institute of Polymer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
Board of Directors of the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies
Professor of Materials in Life Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany

Dan Luo

Professor at the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University, USA
Editor-in-chief: NanoBio Journal
Associate Editor: Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
J. C. Warner Professor of Natural Sciences
Director of Center for Macromolecular Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA
Member of Polish Academy of Sciences
Editor: Progress in Polymer Science, Central European Journal of Chemistry

Fenghua Meng
Professor of Biomedical Polymers Laboratory
Soochow University, China

Phillip Messersmith
Professor of Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University, USA
co-Editor-in-Chief: Biomaterials Science

Teruo Okano
Professor and Director of The Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science
Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan
Associate editor: Nature Medicine, Biomaterials, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Kinam Park
Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Pharmaceutics
Purdue University, USA
Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Controlled Release

Youqinq Shen
Qiushi Chair Professor and Director of Center for Bionanoengineering
Zhejiang University, China
Associate Editor: Current Nanoscience

Jaap van Harten
Executive Publisher, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Elsevier, The Netherlands

Hsing-Wen Sung
Professor and Vice Dean of the Department of Chemical Engineering
National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
Editor: Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Molly Stevens
Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine
Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences
Imperial College London, UK
European Editor: Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
Associate Editor: ACS Nano

Deyue Yan
Professor of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jackie Ying
Professor and Executive Director
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
Member of the German National Academy of Sciences
Editor-in-Chief: Nano Today

Chae-Ok Yun
Professor of the Department of Bioengineering
Hanyang University, Korea
Deputy Editor: Molecular Therapy
Associate Editor: BMC Cancer

Xi Zhang
Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry
Tsinghua University, China
Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Senior Editor: Langmuir