Year: 2015

Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the German Materials Society (DGM) on 19th March 2015 in Frankfurt. Important aspects about the current and future activities of DGM were discussed including the preparations for the MaterialsWeek 2015 "Materials For The Future" Cong...

The first joint scientific meeting between the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Trauma Centre, Ludwigshafen, was held on 18th March in Erlangen organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Several young researc...

Prof. Boccaccini was the invited speaker at the last meeting of the London Materials Society (LMS) on 12th March 2015. He presented the lecture: "Bioactive Glasses and Biofabrication Approaches in Regenerative Medicine: Advances and Challenges". LMS is the London-based local society of the Institute...

Professor Cornelia Kasper, affiliated with the Institute of Biotechnology at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna, Austria, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 5-6 March 2015 to present a seminar in the framework of our "Advances in Biomaterials" seminar series. She d...

The final meeting of project TOPbiomat, funded by the Emerging Fields Initiative of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), was held on 2nd March at the Institute of Biomaterials, chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The successful completion of the project was highlighted as well as the achieve...

An important progress meeting of the EU project ReBioStent (Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents) took place in Bochum, Germany, on 25-27 February 2015. Doctoral researchers Abi Sengottuvelan and Elena Boccardi are working in this project together with Prof. Aldo...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the General Assembly and the Governing Council meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials AISBL (KMM-VIN) held in Brussels on 24th February 2015. Prof. Boccaccini is one of the coordinators of the Working Group 3 "Biomaterials" an...