Year: 2019

On 13th November 2019 we received the visit of a delegation of materials science and engineering students from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. The visit was sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the program at FAU was coordinated by Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head,...

The latest retreat of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre (CRC /SBF 1270) – Electrically Active Implants (ELAINE) took place on 6-7 November 2019 in Hasenwinkel, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting and presented the latest results of the project “B01 – Elec...

We welcome the visiting Master students 2019/20 from National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP) <http://www.mdp.edu.ar/index.php/en/>, Argentina; Sofia Melucci and Manuela Matar Prior, who will carry out academic activities in our Institute in the framework of the student exchange I.DEAR pro...

We are hosting numerous international researchers and students, who have selected the Institute of Biomaterals to carry out their research projects during the Fall/WInter of 2019/2020. We welcome Sofia Melucci and Manuela Matar Prior, visiting students (I.DEAR program) from National Univ. of Mar del...

Our article “Evaluation of Electrospun Poly(ε-Caprolactone)/Gelatin Nanofiber Mats Containing Clove Essential Oil for Antibacterial Wound Dressing”, authored by Irem Unalan (PhD student), Stefan J. Endlein, Benedikt Slavik, Andrea Buettner, Wolfgang H. Goldmann, Rainer Detsch and Aldo R. Boccaccini ...

Laura Ramos Rivera successfully defended her doctoral thesis on 30th October 2019 at the Institute of Biomaterials. Laura carried out her thesis (Dr.-Ing.) under academic supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, with a fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) <https://www.daad.de...

Our Institute was present with a stand and several demonstrators at the "Long Night of the Sciences" in Erlangen. The stand was placed in the exhibition area of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and different experiments were demonstrated, including electrospinning of polymer fibre...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, has been formally inducted to the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) of Germany, at the Annual General Assembly of the Academy that took place in Berlin on 15th October 2019...

The final scientific meeting of the EU (Horizon 2020) project "Mesoporous matrices for localized pH-triggered release of therapeutic ions and drugs (MOZART)"  (grant agreement 685872) took place at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, on 16-17 October 2019, hosted by the project coordinator Prof. Chiara Vit...

In the framework of our participation in the activities of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia, we are hosting four researchers of the FunGlass Centre, who will carry out research activities in our Institute for one ...