Month: May 2019

Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) and the FEMS Annual General Meeting, that took place in Dresden, Germany, on 23rd May 2019, which was hosted at Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) b...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been announced as one of the speakers at the Science & Technology sessions of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) Annual Conference "Sand to Splendour" to be held in Murray Edward College, Cambridge, UK, on 2nd-4th September 2019. Prof. Boccaccini will present the ...

On 20-24 May 2019, we received the visit of Ms Alina Weizel, PhD student at University of Rostock, in the group of Prof. Hermann Seitz, Chair for Microfluidics. Ms Weizel visited also the research group of Dr. Silvia Budday (pictured with Ms Weizel and Prof. Boccaccini) at the FAU Chair of Applied M...

On 15-16 May 2019 we received the visit of researchers from AGH University of Science and Technology,  Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, namely Prof. Maciej Sitarz, Ms Magdalena Gaweda (PhD student) and Dr Jakub Marchewka (post-doctoral researcher). After research presentations of the visit...

Our institute was represented at the 6th International Symposium "Interface Biology of Implants" held in Rostock, Germany, on 8th-10th May 2019. Dr. Rainer Detsch, as an invited speaker, presented the talk "Osteoclastogenesis: A physiologically relevant strategy for bone regeneration" (Co-author:...

Qaisar Nawaz was awarded the best poster prize at the joint meeting of the German Society of Glass Technology (DGG) and the French Union for Science and Glass Technology (USTV), held in Nuremberg on 13-15 May 2019. Qaisar is a doctoral student at the Institute of Biomaterials under supervision of Pr...

The Special Session "FunGlass" dedicated to the "Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass" based in Trencin, Slovakia, took place on 13th May 2019 in the framework of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Glass Technology (DGG) in conjunction with the French Union for Scienc...

On 13th-15th May 2019, the first joint Meeting between the German Society of Glass Technology, DGG, and the French Union for Science and Glass Technology, USTV, (93rd Annual Meeting of German Society of Glass Technology (DGG) in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the French Union for Science and...

Dr. Sebastien Harlepp, Lab for Tumor Biomechanics, University of Strasbourg, France, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 16th May 2019. His visit was in the framework of the current DFG project led by Dr. Aldo Leal-Egana (Institute of Biomaterials), which is investigating 3D biomaterial models ...

The paper "Thermally triggered injectable chitosan/silk fibroin/bioactive glass nanoparticle hydrogels for in-situ bone formation in rat calvarial bone defects", presenting results of our collaboration with colleagues at National Engineering Research Center for Nanomedicine, and Department of Orthop...