Year: 2020

On 11th Feb. 2020 we received the visit of Dr. Ajita Jindal, PhD graduate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Dr. Jindal presented the invited lecture: "Development of mesoporous silica-based materials  for biomedical applications" in the framework of the Advanced Biomaterials Semina...

On 11th Feb. 2020 we received the visit of Prof. Humberto Palza,, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences,  University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. Prof. Palza presented the invited seminar "3D printing of bioactive scaffolds based...

On 6th February we received the visit of Dr. Liliang Ouyang , post-doctoral research associate in the Stevens Group, Department of Materials,  Imperial College London. Previously, Dr. Liliang Ouyang presented the _invited lecture: "Extrusion-based Bioprinting of Photo-crosslinkable Bioinks“ in the f...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Julia Will and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the Poster presentations evening of Master students of the Elite Master’s Programme “Advanced Materials and Processes“ (MAP), which took place on 5th February at Fraunhofer-Institut IISB, Erlangen. It was attended by numerous...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the kick-off meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) at Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia. Prof. Boccaccini attended also the first meeting of the steering committe of BBCE. The project´s main objective is to est...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the opening ceremony and kick-off meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE)at Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia, which was opened by the president of Latvia, Mr Egils Levits. BBCE has received funding from the Euro...

On 22nd Jan. 2020 Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting, organised by the Bavarian University Centre for Latin America, BAYLAT, with Prof. Alfredo R. Lazzeretti, the Rector of the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMDP), Argentina, Prof Guenther Leugering, Vice-president for research, FAU, Prof...

The Institute of Biomaterials is currently hosting numerous international researchers and students, who have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the winter term 2020. We welcome Sofia Melucci and Manuela Matar Prior, visiting students (I.DEAR program) from National Univ....

On 16th Jan. 2020 we received the visit of Prof. Jan Hansmann, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt,  Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology and University of Würzburg. We are collaborating with Prof. Hansmann in ...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the regular meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB)held on 13th January in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. The latest Newsletter of the Council has been recently sent to all ESB members with a reminder of nominations for the ESB awards 2020. This y...