Asian Arden Conference is a sister conference of the Arden Conference in US sponsored by AAPS and has been held in China (2008, 2010) and Korea (2011) so far. The 4th Asian Arden Conference will be held in Beijing, China this year again. The main purpose of the conference is to stimulate the international exchange of information and ideas on new principle and application of the pharmaceutical science and technologies. The main topic of the 5th Asian Arden Conference is "Pharmaceutical Materials Science and Engineering - Characterization and Application - ". There are four sessions such as 1. Nanodevice, 2. Pharmaceutical Engineering and Process Control, 3. Materials Science for Novel Pharmaceutical Technology and Drug Delivery, and 4. Fusion of Pharmaceutical Science and Engineering.