Year: 2020

The symposium  "Functional Tissue Models by Biofabrication"  at the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE 2020) congress  will take place on 24-25 September 2020. This symposium is organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU), Prof. Juergen Groll (Univ. of Würzburg) and Prof. Thomas Scheibel (Univer...

Our paper "Silibinin releasing mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles with potential for breast cancer therapy" has been published on-line in Ceramics International  . In collaboration with Dr. Aldo Leal-Egana, we investigated a novel combination of mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles (mean s...

Our new paper on the fabrication and characterisation of cell laden alginate dialdehyde‐gelatin capsules incorporating 45S5 bioactive glass (BG) microparticles has  been published in Macromolecular Bioscience . The study was led by Dr. Supachai (Boo) Reakasame. Successful encapsulation of MG‐63 cell...

Our new publication entitled: "Production of a novel poly(ɛ-caprolactone)-methylcellulose electrospun wound dressing by incorporating bioactive glass and Manuka honey" is online in "Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials". The paper (OpenAccess) focuses on the fabricat...

The last group meeting of the Summer Term 2020 was held on 5th August 2020. On finalization of this extraordinary and challenging academic term, Prof. Boccaccini said: "I thank the teaching and research staff, PhD students, post-docs and all students in our Institute, who have superbly contributed t...

Marcela Arango-Ospina (PhD student) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini represented our Institute at the ACerS Virtual Glass Summit 2020, organized by the American Ceramic Society. They presented their talks on 3rd August 2020 in the session "Structure and Properties of Bioactive Glasses", chaired by Prof....

The review article "Advancing bioinks for 3D bioprinting using reactive fillers: A review" (co-authors: Susanne Heid and Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been published in Acta Biomaterialia . Here we review the group of multi-material bioinks incorporating inorganic bioreactive fillers being developed for b...

The on-line Summer School "Technologies for Biofabrication” organized in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre (TRR 225) „From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” was successfully held on 20.-24. Juli 2020, coordinated by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr....

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini hosted the scientific board meeting of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” <http://trr225biofab.de/de/>  held on 24th July 2020 as a face-to-face event (the first since March 2020) at ...

At the last General Assembly of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), held remotely on 15th July 2020, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was elected unanimously to serve a third period as member of the FEMS Executive Committee representing the German Materials Society (DGM) for the period 20...