Year: 2012

Ms. Maria Nerantzaki, Master student of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT), Chemistry Department, Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Greece, visited out Institute. This visit took place in the framework of our DAAD funded project: "Novel bionanocomposites for bone tissue enginee...

Dr Tim Douglas, a research associate at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Gent (Belgium) visited our Institute on 17th December. We discussed collaborations in the field of nanocomposites for tissue engineering based on bioactive glass nanoparticles incorporated in soft matrices. I...

Dr Fredrik Ollila, (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini), Chief Executive Officer of BonAlive Biomaterials Ltd., visited our Institute on 12th December 2012 to discuss the on-going collaboration in the field of bioactive glasses for bone tissue regeneration. BonAlive Biomaterials Ltd. is based in Turku, ...

On 3rd December 2012, Prof. A. R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials) and Prof. R. Horch (Chair for Plastic and Hand Surgery) presented the Emerging Fields project "TOPbiomat" in the framework of the Emerging Fields Lectures Series of our University. Prof. Heike Walles of the Unversity of Würzbur...

Dr Tomasz Moskalewicz, senior research scientist and lecturer at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow (Poland), visited our Institute on 19-30 November 2012 in the framework of a Short Term Scientific Mission under COST Action MP1005 "From nano to macro biomaterials (design, processing...

The 4th scientific seminar of the North-Bavaria Biomaterials Alliance (NBBA) was held on 27th November 2012 at the Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, with participation of professors and young researchers from Würzburg, Erlangen and Bayreuth. Representing the Erlangen Ins...