Month: November 2020

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) has been appointed Editor for the Section "Biomaterials for life science and healthcare" in the new Open Access European Journal of Materials. The journal was launched recently by Taylor&Francis and is published on behalf of the Federatio...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the (remote) meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) ,  chaired by FEMS president Prof. Eric Le Bourhis, which took place on 24th November 2020. FEMS is a not-for profit association of European materials socie...

The highly cited review paper "Bone tissue engineering therapeutics: controlled drug delivery in three-dimensional scaffolds" (J. R. Soc. Interface 7 (2010), 209–227) was written when Prof. Boccaccini was at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London and Prof. Viviana Mouriño (Department o...

On 17th Nov. 2020, Prof. Edgar Zanotto, Prof. of Glass Science and Technology, Head of the Vitreous Materials Laboratory, Univ. of Sao Carlos, Brazil, was the invited speaker at the Materials Science Colloquium of the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The colloquium was hosted by ...

On 16th November 2020, Prof. Lobat Tayebi, Marquette University School of Dentistry presented an invited seminar at the Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, entitled: "Topics on Biomaterials and 3D Printing in Regenerative Medicine". Prof. Tayebi presented an overview of ve...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini chaired the online Scientific Symposium of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA), and the Annual General Meeting of the RCAA, which were held on 12-13 November 2020. Prof. Boccaccini is currently the Scientific Coo...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an elected member of the Review Board (406: Materials Science) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)  for the area "Biomaterials" for two consecutive periods, from 2012 to 2020. Prof. Boccaccini said: "It has been a privilege and honor to serve the German materials sci...

Recently, two papers have been published in collaboration with research groups from University of Rostock, Germany, in the context of the collaborative research center SFB1270 "Electrically Active Implants" ELAINE. The papers present: i) in-silico simulations of conductive hydrogels in capacitative ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liverani were the organizers of the external training session on "Controlled release technology: delivery systems for pharmaceuticals and other agents", which was held remotely on 2-4 November 2020 in the framework of the program of training activities of the Baltic ...

A new EU consortium with participation of the Institute of Biomaterials (Principal Investigator: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) focusing on tendon regeneration has been awarded a 4.1 M€ grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovat...