Year: 2015

The progress meeting of the DFG funded collaborative project "Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg Alloys" was held on 4th November 2015 at the Institute of Biomaterials. This project is a collaborative effort of the Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. S. ...

Following an invitation of Prof. Aleš Helebrant and Dr. Dana Rohanova, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented on 2nd November 2015, the guest lecture "Bioactive Materials and Biofabrication in Tissue Engineering: Progress and Challenges" at the Department of Glass and Ceramics, University of Chemistry a...

The 8th Scientific Seminar of the “North-Bavarian Biomaterials Alliance (NBBA) took place on 3rd November 2015 in Bayreuth, Germany, with participation of professors, post-docs and PhD students from the University of Bayreuth, the University of Würzburg and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. NBBA...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the joint meeting "Argentina" jointly organized by the German-Argentine University Centre (DAHZ) and the Bavarian University Centre for Latinamerica (BayLat), which was held on 29th October 2015 at the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the A...

Dr. Julia Will and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini participated at the "Long Night of the Sciences - Nuremberg-Fuerth-Erlangen" which took place on 24th October 2015. Dr. Julia Will presented the lecture (in German): "How to mend a broken heart " in which she introduced to a large audience present in the m...

Ms Claudia Ramskogler, of Institute of Materials Science and Welding, Graz University of Technology, Austria, has finalized her research stay in our Institute which was carried out with a fellowship of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials AISBL (KMM.VIN). Ms Ra...

The 1st NanoHeal Network Meeting and NanoHeal School were held on 19th - 23rd October 2015 in Lyon, France, hosted by University of Lyon in cooperation with the University of Oslo (UiO) (NanoHeal Network coordinator). The main theme of NanoHeal Network is: "Nano-tailoring organo-mineral materials - ...

Prof. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the International Bone Tissue Engineering Congress, bone-tec 2015, held in Stuttgart, Germany, on 8-10 October 2015. The conference was chaired by Prof. Katja Schenke-Layland (Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, IGB,...