Year: 2020

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...

Last week we said "good bye" to Dr. Zulema Vargas and to Dr. Shahin Homaeigohar, who were academic visitors in our Institute. Dr. Vargas was a post-doctoral researcher in our Institute in the framework of the training program for young scientists of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionali...

Our University performed well in several subjects of the new edition of the The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject, including Computer Science (national rank 11), Life Sciences (national rank 15), and Engineering (national rank 6). Medicine, including dentistry, performed pa...

On 27th October, Prof.  Boccaccini presented the invited lecture "Bioactive Glass Innovations: From Bone Regeneration to Wound Healing" in the framework of the MSE seminar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, USA, hos...

The online meeting of the Working Group "Environment and Health" (FG6  "Umwelt und Gesundheit")  of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) took place on 22nd October 2020, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Working group leader). The activities of the Working Group for 2021 were discussed, which include ...

Three of our recent review papers published in Acta Biomaterialia  are listed as Most Downloaded Acta Biomaterialia Articles in the last 90 days. The papers review very important and novel topics that attract the attention of our biomaterials colleagues. Congratulations to Susanne Heid, Thomas Dist...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the meeting of the partners of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE), which was held online, hosted by project coordinator Prof. Janis Locs (Riga Technical University) on 16th October 2020. The project´s main objective is to es...

The review paper "Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes: recent progress and remaining challenges" ,  has been published in Open Access mode in International Materials Reviews. This is a very comprehensive review of the literature in the field of electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of carbon n...