It is great pleasure to invite you to the 10th Asian BioCeramics Symposium 2010 (ABC 2010) held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from November 2 to 5, 2010.

The Asian BioCeramics (ABC) Symposium was first organized in 2001, aiming to promote young Asian researchers who are interested in bioceramics and related fields. To achieve the purpose, the Asian BioCermics is held basically annually at Asian countries, gathering front-line researchers, scientists, engineers, manufacturers, dentists and surgeons from Asian countries.

Current clinical technologies, in terms of regenerative medical therapies related to organ transplantation and artificial organ, have been excellent life-saving and life-extending therapies to treat patients who need to reconstitute diseased or devastated organs or tissues as a result of an accident, trauma, and cancer, or to correct congenital structural anomalies.

In this context, bioceramics has been widely used and plays important roles for several decades in orthopedic, spinal, and maxillofacial surgery. The clinical success depends on the intensive research to optimize the synthetic bioceramics-based graft and to understand the biological behavior. Indeed, there is a lot of remarkable progress in bioceramics researches. The 10th Asian BioCeramics Symposium (ABC2010) serves as a platform where Asian research colleagues, especially young ones, can share the latest results of research, discuss problems, and envisage a new horizon of bioceramics.

This symposium is in conjunction with a special symposium on The Next Generation of Regenerative Medical Therapy.

Yogyakarta is a center for Javanese culture, where the biggest Buddhist temple in the world is located and where Javanese culture was originated. It is known as a student city as well as a heart of Indonesia. Yogyakarta Special Province (one of small provinces in Indonesia) is also home for 3,400,000 inhabitants, in which 510,000 among them reside in the city of Yogyakarta. Its designation as a student city is marked by the existence of 120 state and private higher educational institutions, with around 300,000 students population.

Gadjah Mada University, officially named Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), is Indonesian leading university, established on December 19th, 1949. It is also the oldest and largest state university. We are very proud to host you in ABC2010.

You can enjoy culture, places of interest, foods, music, and Yogyakarta beautiful and attractive spots along the downtown street while having fruitful scientific discussion during the symposium.

Looking forward to seeing you in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, an old, beautiful, and enjoyable city.

Ika Dewi Ana,
Chairperson of ABC2010