Gilson Khang PhD

Dr. Khang is member of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, Society for Biomaterials and American Association of Pharmaceutical Science. He was the one of Founder Members of Asian Tissue Engineering Society (ATES) and one of Founder Members of TERMIS-AP Chapter. Prof. Khang was General Secretary and Treasurer for 2005~2009 of TERMIS-AP Chapter and now serves as a council member and an editor of interLINK (TERMIS Newsletter) of TERMIS-AP Chapter side. Recently, he serves TERMIS-AP Continental Chair-Elect 2012~2014 and Chair as 2015~2017. From 2004 to 2009, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. He is or has been member of the Editorial Board of many scientific journals (e.g. J Tissue Eng Regen Med, Inter J Stem Cell, Tissue Eng, Therapuetic Delivery, World J Stem Cell, Regenerative Research, Macromolecular Research, and Biomaterials Research). He has co-authored or edited 9 books. He has published ~400 original research papers, and ~100 editorials, reviews or chapters in books. His major scientific contribution has been to appreciate and analyze the importance of natural/synthetic hybrid scaffold to reduce the host inflammation reaction as well as the commercialization for tissue engineered products as cartilage, bone, retinal pigment epithelium, cornea endothelium, etc.