Month: March 2019

Our review article entled:"Enhancing biological activity of bioactive glass scaffolds by inorganic ion delivery for bone tissue engineering" (co-authors: V. Mouriño, R. Vidotto, J.P. Cattalini, A.R. Boccaccini) was recently published in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering . In this review pape...

On 22nd March 2019 we received the visit of Ms Ana Belén Peñaherrera Pazmiño and Mr Gustavo Rosero, doctoral researchers from Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Regional Haedo and Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IIB-UBA), Faculty of Engineering, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the rese...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the last meeting of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass) held on 13-15 March 2019 at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia. The meeting brought together all scientific board...

Our review paper entitled: "Protein Interactions with Bioactive Glass Surfaces: A Review"has been published in Applied Materials Today (Authors: K. Zheng, M. Kapp, A. R. Boccaccini). This review covers comprehensively for the first time the literature available in the complex field of protein adsorp...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, has been elected member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) of Germany. Election to the Academy is based on scientific achievements and reputation. Members are drawn from the f...

The special issue "Advanced Glasses, Composites and Ceramics for High Growth Industries", resulting from the EU funded (Horizon 2020) ITN project "CoACH", has been published in the journal Materials. The special issue was co-edited by Prof. Milena Salvo (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy), Prof. Mike Reec...

On 4-7 March 2019, Prof. Boccaccini visited Imperial College London, where he met different colleagues in the Department of Materials.  He met also Prof. Chris Cheeseman (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini), Professor of Materials Resources Engineering at the Imperial Department of Civil and Environment...

At the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN ), <http://www.kmm-vin.info/> held on 26th February 2019 in Brussels, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was reelected coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof...

On 27-28 February 2019 Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) held in the Maison de la Chimie, in Paris, France. Prof. Boccaccini is FEMS EC member representing the German Materials Society (DGM). The nex...