Month: May 2012

Almost everyone at our Institute (image right) attended the 3rd International Conference on "Strategies in Tissue Engineering", held in Würzburg (Germany), on May 23-25, 2012. At this conference, Professor Boccaccini (image left) organised the symposium on "Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine", ...

The second scientific seminar of the Emerging Fields Project "TOPbiomat" was held on 30th May 2012 at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, FAU. The seminar was chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials). The main topic was "Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering" wit...

Prof. Mirka El Fray, Director of the West Pomeranian Center of Advanced Technologies and Professor at the Polymer Institute, West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) in Szczecin (Poland), visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 21st - 25th May 2012. In the framework of an ERASMUS lectureship...

This week we had the visit of Dr Eva García Lecina, Head of Coatings Unit, CIDETEC, San Sebastian (Spain) to discuss collaboration in the field of composite nanostructured coatings for biomedical applications. We also had the visit of Mr Nikos Nianias, PhD student at Aristotle University of Thessalo...

In the framework of a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) of the COST Action MP1005 "From nano to macro biomaterials (design, processing, characterization, modeling) and applications to stem cells regenerative orthopedic and dental medicine (NAMABIO)" Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited the Department...

In the framework of our EU funded GLACERCO project, on 4th May 2012, we received the visit of Prof. Ivo Dlouhy and Mr. Luca Bertolla (PhD student) of the Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno (Czech Republic), who are collaborating with our Institute in one of the subpro...

In the framework of our DAAD funded collaborative project with the Chemistry Department, Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece) on "Novel bionanocomposites for bone tissue engineering", Profs. D. Bikiaris, E. Pavlidou and C. Chrissafis visited the ...