A collection of 15 papers from The American Ceramic Society’s 38th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 26-31, 2014. This issue includes papers presented in Symposium 5 - Next Generation Bioceramics and Biocomposites and Symposium 9 - Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications.

Roger Narayan is the editor of Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.

Paolo Colombo is the editor of Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.

Andrew Gyekenyesi is the volume editor of Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.

Michael Halbig is the volume editor of Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.