Month: April 2015

Prof. Wendelin J. Stark, Functional Materials Laboratory, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, visited our Institute on 28th April 2015. Invited by Prof. A. R. Boccaccini, Prof. Stark presented the Materials Science Colloquium SS2015 at the Department of Materials Scie...

Dr. Sander Leeuwenburgh, assistant professor at Department of Biomaterials, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and PhD students Mani Diba and Jiankang.Song visited our Institute on 27th April 2015. We have a research collaboration with the group of Dr. Leeuwenburgh in the ...

Prof. Boccaccini presented the oral contribution: "Bioactive Glass Based Nanostructured Scaffolds for Vascularized Bone Tissue Engineering" in the session: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at the EuroBioMat 2015 conference held in Weimar, Germany, on 21-22 April 2015. Prof. Boccaccini wa...

The Institute of Biomaterials will be hosting this summer term several visiting undergraduate and post-graduate students, including ERASMUS exchange students, coming from different countries, including Brazil, Italy, Latvia, France, Poland and Portugal, who have chosen our Institute to carry out res...

We welcome 30 new Bachelor, Master and visiting students who have just started (Summer Term 2015) their research projects in our Institute in a variety of topics in the field of biomedical materials. We offer research topics to students interested in the field of biomaterials coming from different c...

Dr. Timothy E. L. Douglas, senior researcher at Nano and biophotonics Group, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Gent University (Belgium), visited our Institute on 20th April 2015. We are collaborating in several projects with Dr Douglas' research team in the field of hydrogels and composites fo...

Mr Louis-Philippe Lefebvre, Team Leader at National Research Council Canada, Boucherville (Canada), visited our Institute on 20th April 2015. Mr Lefebvre and co-workers have developed an alternative interesting foaming technique to fabricate 45S5 bioactive glass scaffolds which provides scaffolds o...