Visit from Nagoya Institute of Technology
The Europe Liaison Office of NITECH was inaugurated at the Engineering Campus of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) on 16th July. In the photo: Prof. Dr. Marion Merklein (Dean of Faculty of Engineering, FAU) and Prof. Ken-ichi Kakimoto (Director, NITech Europe Liaison Office). Last row from left: Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec (FAU) Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU), Prof. Dr. Peter Greil (FAU), FAU Deputy president Prof. Dr. Christoph Korbmacher, FAU President Prof. Dr. Karl-Dieter Grüske, NITech President Prof. Dr. Minoru Takahashi, Prof. Dr. Yuji Iwamoto (Director, Center for Promotion of Internationalization, NITech), Prof. Dr. Sho Hagio (Vice Director, Center for Promotion of Internationalization, NITech), Akira Mizutani (General consul of Japan). (Click image to enlarge)
On the occasion, Prof. Yuji Iwamoto (in the photo with Prof. Boccaccini), Department of Frontier Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) and Director of the International Center at NITECH, visited our Institute. We are collaborating with Prof. Iwamoto’s group in the field of porous silica based materials for bone tissue engineering scaffolds. This collaboration is part of our on-going collaborative projects with NITECH in the framework of the JSPS International Training Program led by NITECH “Institute of Ceramics Research and Education“. (Click image to enlarge)