Month: June 2016

Prof. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the 2nd international Symposium "Frontiers in Biomaterial Science", held on June 24-25, 2016 in Leipzig (Germany). The symposium was organized by the Transregio Collaborative Research Centre TRR67: Functional Biomaterials for Controlling Healing Pr...

Aldo R. Boccaccini, Professor and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, has been elected member (academician) in the World Academy of Ceramics (WAC). Academicians of WAC are individuals who have made internationally significant contributions to the a...

On 22nd June 2016, we received the visit of representatives of the company Sasil, S.p.A., Brusnengo, BI, Italy, industrial partners in the Horizon 2020 EU Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network (ETN) project "Advanced glasses, Composites And Ceramics for High growth Industries - (CoACH)". ...

Staff, students and academic visitors of the Institute of Biomaterials were present at the general meeting which took place, for the first time, in our new premises in Erlangen-West (Ulrich-Schalk-Street 3, 91056 Erlangen) on 21st June 2016. It was an opportunity for several members of the Institute...

Prof. Boccaccini was a plenary speaker at the 3rd International Conference and 5th International MacroNano-Colloquium on the Challenges and Perspectives of Functional Nanostructures (CPFN), held on June 20-21, 2016, at TU Ilmenau, Germany. The title of the presentation was: "Bioactive nanostructured...

The second project meeting and third NanoHeal School of the Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network project "Nano-tailoring organo-mineral materials - Controlling strength and healing with organic molecules in mineral interfaces" (NanoHeal) were held in Magleas, Denmark on 12-17 June 2016, ...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, received the Turner Award 2016 from The International Commission on Glass (ICG) in recognition of his active participation and support of the activities of the ICG’s Technical Commit...

On 9th June, we received the visit of Ass. Prof. Thomas Fiedler, School of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), University of Newcastle, Australia. We are currently collaborating with Prof. Fiedler's group on several topics related to the modeling of the properties of 3D tissue engineering scaffold...

On 6-8 June 2016 we received the visit of Dr. Sanjukta Deb, Reader in the Division of Tissue Engineering and Photonics, and member of the Dental Clinical Academic Group at King's College London (UK). On June 7th, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Sanjukta Deb presented the Summer Term Material...