Visit from Croatia
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 Stress continues to focus on the biological characterization of Cu-doped bioactive glasses [1]. A research paper has resulted from this collaboration [2]. Visits of young researchers to Zagreb are scheduled and the project will be concluded at the end of 2014. In the photo: Dr. R. Detsch, Prof. Zarkovic and Prof. A. R. Boccaccini. (Click image to enlarge)
[1] Hoppe, A., et al., In vitro reactivity of Cu doped 45S5 Bioglass® derived scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, J. Mater. Chem. B, 1 (2013) 5659-5674.
[2] Milkovic, L. et al., Effects of Cu‐doped 45S5 bioactive glass on the lipid peroxidation‐associated growth of human osteoblast‐like cells in vitro, J. Biomed. Mater. Res. Part A (2014) in press