The Glycoforum website established by Seikagaku Corporation is celebrating its 10th year. The series ?The Science of Hyaluronan Today? was an inaugural feature of the website that has continued to bring new insight into the multi-faceted, ever expanding biological and technological roles of this fascinating macromolecule. The series has been a valuable resource as indicated by the nearly one million visits it has received during the past year.
We are therefore very pleased that Seikagaku has asked that we continue to bring new information to this site through frequent ?Updates? of former articles and the addition of new articles featuring the emerging frontiers of hyaluronan research. The recent 7th International Conference on Hyaluronan in Charleston, co-chaired by Bryan Toole and Vincent Hascall, provided an opportunity to learn the current state of the art for hyaluronan research and was an excellent launching point to initiate the second 10 year progression of this series. We hope that you will enjoy it and find it valuable as it continues to evolve.
September, 2007
Vincent C. Hascall
Cleveland Clinic
Masaki Yanagishita
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Bryan P. Toole
Medical University of
South Carolina
