Month: July 2017

On 28th July 2017 Tobias Zehnder successfully defended his doctoral thesis in the field of biofabrication of bone tissue scaffolds using alginate based hydrogels, which was carried out under the supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Institute of Biomaterials. In addition to Prof. Boccac...

The last scientific meeting of the North-Bavaria Biomaterials Alliance (NBBA) in SS 2017 was hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and held at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, with participation of 22 researchers from the partner universities Würzburg, Bayreuth and Erlan...

The end of the summer term 2017 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials which took place on 19th July. Prof. Boccaccini highlighted the continuous international character of our Institute: nineteen nationalities were represented at this meeting, including our visi...

Several students and researchers have chosen our Institute to carry out research during the next months. We welcome Ms M. Laura Dittler, visiting PhD student from Nat. University of La Plata, Argentina, Francesca Serio, visiting PhD Student, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, Dr. Go Kawamura, vis...

On 18th July 2017, Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting of Topic Coordinators of the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) conference, which was held at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The group is preparing the MSE 2018 Call for Abstracts. The submitted proposals for symposia were evalu...

On 18-20 July 2017 we received the visit of Prof. Susmita Bose and Prof. Amit Bandyopadhyay of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, W. M. Keck Biomedical Materials Research Lab Washington State University, Pullman, USA. Prof. Susmita Bose presented the invited lecture: "3D printing ...

During July-August 2017 we are hosting researchers from the School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, in the framework of the DAAD/CSC funded project in the field of nanostructured bioactive coatings for orthopedic applications. Ms Hongfei Qi (PhD student) and P...

On 14th July 2017 we received the visit of Prof. Dr. Thomas Fiedler, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia. We have been collaborating with Prof. Fiedler for a number of years in the field of characterisation of bioactiv...

The Bavarian University Centre for Latin America (BAYLAT) celebrated 10 years and the inauguration of new offices in Erlangen on 14th July 2017. Prof. Boccaccini is deputy member in the BAYLAT board. BAYLAT is currently funded one of our research projects with Argentina. In the photos Prof. Boccac...

  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 15th Conference and Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS), held on July 9-13, 2017, in Budapest, Hungary. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Expanding applications of bioactive glasses in tissue engineering and wound he...