Year: 2016

At the last General Assembly of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 12th July 2016, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was elected as member of the FEMS Executive Committee for the period 2017-2018 representing the German Materials Society (DGM: Deutsche Ge...

The official inauguration and symbolic hand-over of the key of our new building in Erlangen-West (Ulrich-Schalk-Street 3, 91056 Erlangen) took place on 8th July 2016 with the presence of authorities of the state of Bavaria, the city of Erlangen and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), includi...

On 5-6 July 2016 we welcomed Prof. Maria Vallet-Regi in our Institute. Maria Vallet Regi is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of the Research Group Smart Biomaterials in the Department of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Sp...

On 6th July 2016 Anahi Philippart successfully defended her doctoral thesis in the field of mesoporous bioactive glasses for bone tissue engineering, which was carried out under the supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Boccaccini, Prof. Maria Vallet-Regi...

Our review paper "Nanoscale Bioactive Glasses in Medical Applications", co-authored by Melek Erol-Taygun, Kai Zheng and Aldo R. Boccaccini, published in Int. J. Appl. Glass Sci. Vol. 4 (2013) has been listed as the top cited article in the journal in 2013-2014, thus contributing to the increase of ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the 15th Annual United Kingdom Society for Biomaterials (UKSB)conference, held at Regent Street Cinema, University of Westminster, London, on 30th June - 1st July 2016, chaired by Prof. Ipsita Roy (Univ. of Westminster). Prof. Boccaccini pr...

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)". ...