Akon Higuchi is Professor in Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University as well as WIBE. He is a Chair Professor in National Central University (Taiwan) and a visiting professor of King Saud University (Saudi Arabia). He received his B.S. in Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1979, and his Ph.D. in Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1985. He was a Professor and a chair of postgraduate course in Department of Materials & Life Science in Seikei University (Tokyo, Japan) from 1993 to 2007. He received Sofue Memorial Award from Society of Fiber Science, Japan in 1994, and Seikei Academic Award from Seikei Alumni Association in 2003. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), a Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE, USA), Advisory Board of Journal of Materials Chemistry B (Impact factor=4.8, RSC, UK), and Editorial Board of Laboratory Investigation (Impact factor=4.3, Nature). He is an editor of Open Physics and American Journal of Tissue Engineering and stem cell. He is interesting in the development of materials for stem cell research.