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Welcome to the website of the Institute of Biomaterials, seventh Institute of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
The Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg started teaching and research activities on 1st October 2009 with the appointment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Aldo R. Boccaccini (formerly at Imperial College London, UK), as Professor and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials.
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On 17 November 2025, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was conferred the Honorary Doctorate degree by the International University of Catalonia (IUC Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain. The solemn conferral ceremony took place in the Aula Magna of the University in Barcelona, attended by the Minister of the Dep...
On November 12th, invited by Prof. Viviana Mourino, co-organiser and Professor at Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, Prof. Boccaccini presented the invited talk titled: “Bioactive Materials in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications”, at the 8th Intern...
Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Slovak and Czech Glass Conference, held on 12-14 November in Trencin, Slovakia, under the topic: Innovation and sustainability in the glass industry. He presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses: From bone regeneration to biofabrication and ionic m...