Year: 2020

The end-of-the-year meeting at the Institute of Biomaterials took place online on 17th December 2020. Professor Boccaccini summarized the accomplishments of our Institute in the year 2020, including 3 doctoral (Dr.-Ing.) theses. More than 70 Master, Bachelor and Project students carried out their pr...

The last progress meeting of 2020 of the DFG funded project on advanced microstructural characterisation of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, was held remotely on 17 December 2020. In this project, we collaborate with researchers from Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Syst...

On 17th Dec. 2020 Prof. Xanthippi Chatzistavrou, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, USA, presented the invited seminar: "Multifunctional glass-ceramic particles: Fighting resistant bacteria and promoting tissue regeneration" in the framework of our A...

Our Institute was well represented at the 11th WORLD BIOMATERIALS CONGRESS (WBC 2020) held remotely on 11-15 December 2020. Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker in two workshops. He presented the lecture "Enhancing antibacterial effects of bioactive glasses by phytotherapeutic agents" in the "Cha...

A new project investigating bioactive glasses in bone cancer treatment has recently started in our Institute in collaboration with Dr. Jörg Fellenberg and Dr. Fabian Westhauser, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, funded by the Cancer Research Society ("Deutsch...

On 8th December 2020 Dr. Daniela Carta, Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey, UK, presented the invited talk: "Phosphate-based glasses prepared via in solution methods for biomedical applications"  in the framework of the seminar series "Advances in Biomaterials 2020" of the Institute of Bi...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered a plenary lecture at the “International Conference on Biomedical Materials Innovation-2020, (ICBMI-2020)”, organised by the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs-India (SBAOI), Society for Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine, India, held as a vi...

We congratulate Lisa Kiesewetter who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Technologies for Vascularized Skin Equivalents to Study Cutaneous Wound Healing in Vitro” on 7th December 2020. Lisa carried out her doctoral project at University Hospital Würzburg, Chair for Tissue Engineering...

During the winter term 2020/2021 we are hosting numerous international visitors, despite the limitations and restrictions imposed by the COVID-19, including senior researchers, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students, e.g. Erasmus exchange students. They have chosen our Institute to carry o...