Year: 2016

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Enhancing alginate based hydrogels for tissue scaffolds and tumor models by 3D printing" at the Bioprinting & 3D Printing in the Life Sciences conference held on 13-14 October 2016 in Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK. The conference was organ...

The 4th scientific meeting of the TRANSFORMAS research group took place on 10th October 2016 at the Institute of Biomaterials in Erlangen, organised by Prof. A. R. Boccaccini. TRANSFORMAS ("Translational Applications for Material Science") is a research initiative between the Institute of Biomateria...

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...

On 4th October 2016, we received the visit of Prof. Cesar Barbero, National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina. Prof. Barbero presented the seminar "GRAPHENE and CARBON NANOTUBES. DERIVATIVES AND ANALOGUES. NEW MATERIALS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS". We are planing collaborations with the resear...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head, Institute of Biomaterials, is the winner of the prestigious "Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture Award 2016" by the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE) . The award recognizes an individual who ha...

Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Boron doped bioactive glass scaffold with ALP functionalisation for bone tissue engineering: osteogenesis and angiogenesis studies" at the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM) Annual Meeting, held in Aachen, Germany, on 28.09 - 01.10.2016 under leadership o...

Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the MSE Experts Committee of the MSE 2016 congress held in Darmstadt, Germany, on 27-29 September 2016, organised by the German Materials Society (DGM). Together with Prof. K. Jandt (University of Jena), Prof. Boccaccini was responsible for the organization of Topic ...

The 7th International Workshop on Advanced Ceramics (IWAC-07) was held in Limoges, France on 26-28 September 2016, organized by "Laboratory of Science of Ceramic Processing and Surface Treatments” (SPCTS) and held under the auspices of the French Group of Ceramics. Professor Boccaccini presented the...

On 21-23 September, Prof. Boccaccini visited the Department of Materials at Imperial College London (UK). Prof. Boccaccini is visiting professor at Imperial College London (LINK: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.boccaccini ) and we currently have several collaborations with colleagues in the Depar...

Prof. Boccaccini was a plenary speaker at the 14th Int. Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials (ISFGMs) held in Bayreuth, Germany, on Sept. 18-21, 2016, chaired by Prof. Monika Willert-Porada (Univ. of Bayreuth). The title of his presentation was: Functionally Graded Materials in Biomedical Appl...