Year: 2019

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...

We are happy to announce that Dr. Agata Lapa, who completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Biomaterials last December, is the recipient of the Davidge Award 2018 of the journal Advances in Applied Ceramics: Structural, Functional and Bioceramics, the specialist ceramics journal of the Inst...

Our paper “Electrospun patterned porous scaffolds for the support of ovarian follicles growth: a feasibility study”  has been recently published in Scientific Reports. The paper is the outcome of a fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration between members of our Institute (Dr. Liliana Liverani, Prof....

The 9th Scientific Seminar of the North Bavarian Biomaterials Alliance (NBBA) was held at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, on 21st February 2019, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Three presentations of each participating university (Univ. of B...