Marine Carbohydrates: Fundamentals and Applications, Part A

Isolation and Characterization of Chitin and Chitosan from Marine Origin
Nitar Nwe, Tetsuya Furuike and Hiroshi Tamura Hybrid Carrageenans: Isolation, Chemical Structure and Gel Properties
Loic Hilliou Isolation of Low Molecular Weight Heparin/Heparan Sulfate from Marine Sources
Ramachandran Saravanan Isolation and Characterisation Hyaluronic Acid from Marine Source
Sadhasivam Giji and Muthuvel Arumugam Extracellular Polysaccharides Produced by Marine Bacteria
Panchanathan Manivasagan and Se-Kwon Kim Biological Acitvities of Alginate
Mikinori Ueno and Tatsuya Oda Biological Activities of Carrageenan
Ratih Pangestuti and Se-Kwon Kim Biological Acitvities of Heparin Sulfate
Muthuvel Arumugam and Sadhasivam Giji Beneficial Effects of Hyaluronic Acid
Prasad N. Sudha and Maximas H. Rose Fucoidans from Marine Algae as Potential Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors
Noel Vinay Thomas and Se-Kwon Kim Anticancer Effects of Fucoidan
Kalimuthu Senthilkumar and Se-Kwon Kim Anti-Cancer Effects of Chitin and Chitosan Derivatives
Mustafa Zafer Karagozlu and Se-Kwon Kim

Professor Se-Kwon Kim, PhD, currently serves as a senior professor in the Department of Chemistry and the director of the Marine Bioprocess Research Center (MBPRC) at Pukyong National University in the Republic of Korea. He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the Pukyong National University and joined as a faculty member. He has previously served as a scientist in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (1988-1989), and was a visiting scientist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (1999-2000).Professor Se-Kwon Kim was the first president of the Korean Society of Chitin and Chitosan (1986-1990) and the Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology (2006-2007). He was also the chairman for the 7th Asia-Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium, which was held in South Korea in 2006. He is one of the board members of the International Society of Marine Biotechnology and the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. Moreover, he was the editor in chief of the Korean Journal of Life Sciences (1995-1997), the Korean Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology (2006-2007), and the Korean Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology (2006-present). His research has been credited with the best paper award from the American Oil Chemist's Society (AOCS) and the Korean Society of Fisheries Science and Technology in 2002.
Professor Se-Kwon Kim's major research interests are investigation and development of bioactive substances derived from marine organisms and their application in oriental medicine, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals via marine bioprocessing and mass- production technologies. He has also conducted research on the development of bioactive materials from marine organisms for applications in oriental medicine, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals. To date, he has authored over 600 research papers and holds 152 patents. In addition, he has written or edited more than 60 books.