Year: 2014

Professor Dr. Sevi Murugavel of the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, is visiting the Institute of Biomaterials. He is collaborating with our institute in the field of mesoporous bioactive glasses with enhanc...

Prof. Humberto Palza, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile and Mr Julian Bejarano Narvaez, PhD student at University of Chile, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 2nd June 2014. Prof. Palza and Prof. Boccaccini are collaborating in a researc...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the International Workshop on "Regenerative Medicine" held in Berlin on 19-21 May 2014. The NATO Workshop was organized in cooperation with Julius Wolff Institute and Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies, ...

The Workshop "Current Research, Industrial and Clinical Issues in Bone Implant Development" was held at the Fraunhofer IFAM in Bremen on 21-22 May 2014. This workshop was organised in the framework of Working Group 3 "Biomaterials" coordinated by Prof. A. R. Boccaccini and Prof. C. Hellmich (TU Vien...

Professor David Pye, Emeritus Professor of Glass Science and Engineering, Inamori School of Engineering, Alfred University, NY, USA, and Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society visited our Institute on 23rd May 2014. Prof. Pye is the editor-in-chief of the journal: "International J...

On 15th May, Nooeaid Patcharakamon (Look-Om) successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Multilayered Scaffolds for Osteochondral Tissue Engineering Based on Bioactive Glass and Biodegradable Polymers" (in German: "Mehrlagige Gerüststrukturen für das Knochen-Knorpel Tissue Engineering basie...

The Workshop on Cell-Material Interactions of the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) project BIOBONE was held in Davos (Switzerland) on 28-30 April 2014. In the picture Preethi Balasubramanian (PhD student), Valentina P. Miguez (PhD student), Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Rainer Detsch...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at: Stern Forum Innovation and Biomaterials organized by "BioRegio STERN". The event was held in Stuttgart, Germany, on 29th April. He presented the scientific perspective lecture: “Biomaterials in bone tissue regeneration and biofabrication: advances and chal...