Year: 2017

  The last meeting in 2017 of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) was held on 18th December 2017 in Strassburg, France. In the photo: Prof. Marc Bohner (RMS Foundation, Switzerland), Prof. Silvia Fare (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy), Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (University of Er...

  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended as invited speaker the launch of the Network of Argentinean Scientists in the United Kingdom which took place at a reception at the Embassy of Argentina in London on 14th December 2017, hosted by Ambassador R. Carlos Sersale di Cerisano and with the presence of...

  The end-of-the-year meeting at the Institute of Biomaterials took place on 11th December 2017 in our new building in Erlangen-West. Professor Boccaccini summarized the achievements of our Institute in the year 2017, including 5 doctoral theses, more than 40 Master, Bachelor and Project students...

  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the Bone and Enamel Tissue Science and Engineering 2017 (BETSE 2017) One-Day Meeting held on 13 December 2017 in Leeds, United Kingdom (chair: Prof. Animesh Jha, University of Leeds, pictured with Prof. Boccaccini). Prof. Boccaccini pr...

  On 11th December 2017 Micael Alonso Frank successfully defended his doctoral thesis in the field of development and characterisation of superhydrophobic surfaces, which was carried out under the supervision of Professor Sanna Virtanen at the Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion and co-sup...

  Prof. Mirka El Fray, Head of the Division of Biomaterials and Microbiological Technologies, Polymer Institute, at West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT), Szczecin, Poland, is visiting our Institute. We collaborate with Prof. El Fray's research group in the framework of the DAAD PPP fund...

  On 8th December we received the visit of Monica Echeverry-Rendon, PhD student from University of Antioquia (Medellin-Colombia) and University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She presented the seminar: "Development of Biodegradable Magnesium-Based Supports for Stem Cell Therapy of Vascular Diseas...

  We received the visit of Prof. Silvia Simison and Prof. Maria Andrea Camerucci (INTEMA, University of Mar del Plata), who are partners in the project I.DEAR (Ingenieure Deutschland-Argentinien), the exchange program in materials science and engineering funded by the German-Argentinean Universit...

  Chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the International Workshop "Drug-Free Antibacterial Hybrid Biopolymers for Medical Applications: Developing new anti-bacterial therapies based on biomedical polymers and inorganic materials" was held at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-N...