Dr. Detsch elected secretary of German Biomaterials Society (DGBM)
Dr. Rainer Detsch (Erlangen Institute of Biomaterials) was elected secretary of the executive board of the German Biomaterials Society (DGBM), at the general assembly of the society, held in Aachen on 30th September 2016. In the photo, the previous and new executive board members, from left to right: Dr. Andrea Ewald (treasurer, University Hospital of Würzburg), Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Jahnen-Dechent (new president, Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen), Dr. Rainer Detsch (new secretary, Institute of Biomaterials, FAU), Prof. Anke Bernstein (new deputy chair, University Hospital of Freiburg), Prof. Stefan Rammelt (new member of the board “special tasks”, University Hospital of TU Dresden TU Dresden), Prof. Regine Willumeit (former secretary, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht) and Prof. Matthias Epple (former board member for “special tasks”, University Duisburg-Essen).