Year: 2012

On 16th April, we received the visit of Dr Steven Mullens, researcher at VITO, Mol in Belgium, and Mr. V. Ozhukil Kollath, who are collaborating on a project focusing on electrophoretic deposition of bioactive coatings also with Prof. R. Cloots, University of Liege in Belgium. The collaboration with...

The first scientific seminar of the Emerging Fields Project "TopBiomat" was held on 28th March 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 "Protein based Biomaterials" with prese...

Prof. Boccaccini was one of the invited participants at the workshop "Future Materials and Challenges" organised by the Materials Science and Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC) of the European Science Foundation, held in Leuven (Belgium), on 26-27 March 2012. Prof. Boccaccini represented the res...

Professor Nicola Tirelli, Professor of Polymers and Biomaterials at the School of Biomedicine and the School ofMaterials, University of Manchester (UK), visited our Institute on 27-28 March 2012. He discussed with Dr. R. Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini areas of common research interest in the fi...

On 21-23 March we received the visit of Prof. Neven Zarkovic and Ms. Lidija Milkovic of Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb (Croatia), in the framework of our DAAD funded collaborative project "Cu-Bioglass in bone regeneration strategies". Discussions took place on the advances of the project and...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA) which was held on 16th March 2012 at the Argentinean Embassy in Berlin. The meeting was also attended by the Ambassador of Argentina t...

A new project "Design and development of novel matrices for tissue engineering and/or drug delivery for pathologies of high social and economic impact" led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, FAU) and Prof. Dr Vivia...