The 60th anniversary of the invention of artificial cells in conjunction with the XVI International Symposium on Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Therapeutics and the V Nanomedicine Conference were successfully held in Montreal 13–15 November 2017. Videos of the opening plenary lectures and the abstract book are available to all on www.medicine.mcgill.ca/artcell. These include the videos of the opening addresses followed by the 60th anniversary lecture by the inventor of artificial cells, Professor Chang from McGill University. Professor Jiang’s representative from Peking University gave the plenary keynote lecture for the best 2017 paper of this journal.
Thomas Chang