Year: 2015

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...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA) which was held on 17th April 2015 at the Argentinean Consulate in Frankfurt. Prof. Boccaccini represents the area "Engineering" in the...

In the framework of the project of Ms Y. Schroeder, Biomedical Engineering, Ansbach University of Applied Sciences co-supervised at our Institute by Dr. R. Detsch and Prof. Boccaccini, in the field of additive manufacturing of biodegradable polymer scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, Prof. Boccac...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the Conference on "Unified scientific approaches towards regenerative orthopaedics and dentistry" (REDEOR) held on March 25-27, 2015, in Venice, Italy. The conference was a forum for presentations of new findings and perspectives in interdisciplinary research areas involvin...