Year: 2013

The meeting of the Working Group (WG) "Reliability of Implant Materials and Biostructures" of the German Association for Materials Research and Testing (DVM) was held at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, on 25th September 2013. The meeting was org...

Prof. Dr. Viviana Mouriño of the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, visited our Institute during September in the framework of the collaborative project "Design and development of novel matrices for tissue engineering and/or drug delivery for pathologies ...

On 13th September Prof. Boccaccini visited the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials at University of Sevilla, Spain. In addition to attending the presentation of the final projects of students E. J. Gil Fernández and G. J. Pérez Jurado (who carried out their research projects at the In...

On 10-14 September, Prof. Boccaccini attended the European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2013) held in Sevilla, Spain, where he co-organised the symposium: "Bioinspired and Functional Materials for Tissue Engineering"  together with Prof. J. Mano (Univ. of Minh...

This week, Dr Guido Falk, Leader of the Research Group Structural and Functional Ceramics, at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Saarland visited our Institute. We discussed research collaboration in the field of electric field assisted processing of biomaterials. Dr Falk...

Prof. Dr. Neven Zarkovic of the "Rudjer Boskovic Institute" in Zagreb (Croatia) visited our Institute this week in the framework of our DAAD funded collaborative project "Cu-Bioglass in bone regeneration strategies". The collaboration with Prof. Zarkovic and his team at the Laboratory of Oxidative S...

Juan P. Cattalini, PhD student at the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, is visiting our Institute in the framework of our collaborative project: "Design and development of novel matrices for tissue engineering and/or drug delivery for pathologies o...

These days in August we received the visit of two researchers from France. Dr Aldo Leal-Egaña from CEA Grenoble, Physics of the cytoskeleton and morphogenesis Group, is visiting to discuss further research collaboration in the field of cell-biomaterial interactions for regenerative medicine, follow...

Dr. Alberto Bolgiani, of "Hospital Aleman", Buenos Aires, Argentina, visited our Institute in August. A collaboration with Dr  Bolgiani's group on the development of novel polymer nanocomposite patches for wound healing applications is being planned which includes also collaborative research with Pr...

Andrea Bagdadi and Pooja Basnett, PhD students based at the University of Westminster, UK, with Dr Ipsita Roy as main supervisor, have recently passed their PhD oral examination. Both were co-supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Andrea and Pooja carried out projects involving the development and ...