Year: 2017

  Our Institute was prominently represented at the Annual Meeting of the German Biomaterials Society (DGBM) held in Würzburg on 9-11 November 2017. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture "Bioactive glasses as ideal biomaterial vehicles for biologically active ion release in tissue engineering and...

  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini chaired the 24 Month Meeting of the H2020 EU project "MOZART" (MesopOrous matrices for localiZed pH-triggered releAse of theRapeuTic ions and drugs), which was held at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, on 7-8 November 2017. Project partner...

  On Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 2017, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini visited the Laboratory ITODYS ("Interface Treatment Organisation and Dynamic of Systems"), at University Paris Diderot (Paris VII), hosted by Dr. Fayna Mammeri. Professor Boccaccini met several researchers to discuss collaboration between ...

  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was one of the six plenary speakers at the 29th Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine, ISCM, (Bioceramics 29), held in Toulouse, France, on 25-27 October 2017. He presented the plenary lecture: "Bioactive glasses in soft tiss...

  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the co-president of the International Concerence "Tissue Regeneration: Advanced Ceramics and Composites" (TRACE) held in Genoa (Genova), Italy, on October 18-20, 2017. He also delivered the invited lecture entitled: "Bioactive glasses for the controlled delivery of ...

  Prof. A. R. Boccaccini met Prof. A. Matsuda, Prof. G. Kawamura and Ass. Prof. Tan Wai Kian of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, TUT, Japan, during the last EPD conference in S. Korea in October 2017. We are currently collabo...

  The project proposal "Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE)" has been approved for funding by the European Commission under the scheme H2020-WIDESPREAD-04-2017-Teaming Phase1. BBCE project´s main objective is to establish a joint Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence for advanced b...

  Organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, an international symposium dedicated to honor the contributions of Prof. Omer van der Biest (KU Leuven; Belgium) to the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) field was organised on 3rd October 2017 in the framework of the 6th Int. Conference on Electrophoretic ...

  The 6th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD 2017) was held on 1-6 October 2017 in Gyeongju, South Korea. Researchers from academia and industry coming from more than 15 counties attended the conference, including 6 Keynote speakers, presenting in oral and poster contribu...