This is an international symposium for functionalized separation membranes related to advanced biomaterials, biomolecular engineering, and biomedical membranes. Prof. Yung Chun, who has been awarded "The SCEJ Award for Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer 2017", is invited to give a plenary lecture. Spirited and energetic researchers working on biomaterials related to membranes are also invited to discuss widely fundamentals and applications of "biological-artificial" membranes. We hope this symposium will be fruitful and contribute to development of biomaterials and biomolecular membranes.