Year: 2014

The 5th International conference on EPD was held on 6-10 October 2014 in Schloss Hernstein, Austria. More than 85 participants, including senior researchers from academia and industry as well as students coming from more than 24 counties attended the conference, including 6 Keynote speakers, present...

A seminar was held on 2nd October 2014 to inaugurate the new scanning electron microscopy (SEM) facility in the Institute of Biomaterials in collaboration with the Institute of Polymer Materials. This new SEM acquired with support of the German Science Foundation (DFG) belongs to the two mentioned I...

The 6th International Workshop on Advanced Ceramics (IWAC-06) was held in Erlangen on 28-30 September. The symposium was chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and co-chaired by Prof. Peter Greil (Institute of Glass and Ceramics). This series of international workshops, which started in 2004, brings t...

Our Institute was well represented at the Materials Science and Engineering 2014 conference (MSE 2014) held in Darmstadt, Germany on 23-25 September 2014. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a member of the organizing committee and he organized and chaired the symposium "Biomaterials Applications". He also...

During the "Advances in Bioactive Glasses" Symposium held at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) (Liverpool, UK, 3rd September 2014) honouring Professor Larry Hench, the inventor of bioactive glass, the new journal "BIOMEDICAL GLASSES" was launched. Professor Al...

Our Institute had a strong participation at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held in Liverpool on 31st August-3rd September 2014. Professor Boccaccini was a member of the International Advisory Committee of the conference and he chaired two sessions dedicated...

Ms Pooja Basnett (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) completed successfully her PhD project at the University of Westminster, London, UK, under supervision of Dr. Ipsita Roy (Head of Applied Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular and Applied Biosciences, University of Westminster) and wi...

On 29th August Prof. A. R. Boccaccini met in London Dr. P. Jackson (Lucideon), Dr. K. Atkinson (University of Cambridge), Dr Pooja Bassnet (University of Westminster) and Dr. M. Cresswell (Lucideon), who are research partners in the EU FP7 Project "Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeut...

On 8th August 2014, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Rainer Detsch and Ms Alina Grünewald payed a visit to the new buildings of our Institute at the Erlangen Bioresearch Centre. The completion of the new construction under the direction of the State Building Authority Erlangen-Nuremberg is scheduled fo...

On 4th August Prof. Jie Wei of the Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of the Ministry of Education and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, visited our Institute and presented the talk: "Bioactive biomaterials for bone...