Month: July 2015

On 29th July 2015 Wei Li successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "45S5 Bioactive Glass-Based Composite Scaffolds with Polymer Coatings for Bone Tissue Engineering Therapeutics", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Boccaccin...

Prof. Ilaria Cacciotti, of University Niccolo Cusano, Rome, Italy, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 28-29 July 2015. Prof. Cacciotti conducts research in the field of biomaterials, including bioactive glasses. Prof. Boccaccini has initiated an ERASMUS exchange program between the Engineering...

On 28th July 2015 Qiang Chen successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Electrophoretic Deposition of Composite Coatings with Bioactive Character and Drug Delivery Capability", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition of Prof. Boccaccini, ...

On 23rd July 2015 we received the visit of J. Mater. Chem. B 2 (2014) 1470PD Dr. Bernd Rolauffs Deputy Director of the Siegfried Weller Institute for Trauma Research and Director of the Laboratory for Biomechanics at the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Tuebingen, University of Tuebingen, and...

In the context of the DFG funded project "Development of endothelialised small diameter tissue-engineered grafts for cardiovascular surgery", Dr. Raminder Singh (PI) and collaborators Prof. Christoph Alexiou and PD Dr. Iwona Cicha (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini and Dr. R. Detsch), Section for Exper...

Dr. Begoña Ferrari, Tenured Scientist at Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (ICV), CSIC, Madrid, Spain, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 27-29 July 2015. Dr. Ferrari leads a research program on Colloidal Processing at ICV, including broad research activities in the field of electrophoretic depos...

On 22nd July 2015 Bapi Sarker successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Advanced Hydrogels Concepts Based on Combinations of Alginate, Gelatin and Bioactive Glasses for Tissue Engineering", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition of Prof...

The end of the summer term 2015 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials which took place in a glorious summer day in Erlangen (see photos). Early in the week the Student's Seminar "Biomaterials for Medical Engineers" was held at the Institute, as the final teaching ...

Dr. Chris Arts and Ms Nicole A. P. van Gestel, MSc (PhD student) from Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Maastricht UMC+ and Prof. Sandra Hofmann-Boss from Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, pictured with Dr. R. Detsch and Prof. A. R. Boccaccini...

The first review meeting of the EU project ReBioStent (Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents) took place on 15th July 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Doctoral researcher Elena Boccardi and Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting (pictured with ReBioStent scientific coord...