Month: March 2021

Our review paper entitled "Poly(Glycerol Sebacate) in Biomedical Applications—A Review of the Recent Literature" (authors: Lena Vogt, Florian Ruther, Sahar Salehi (Univ. of Bayreuth) and Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been just published in the journal Adv. Healthcare Materials . In this review (open acces...

On 25th March 2021, Prof. Chiara E. Ghezzi,  Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, presented the invited seminar at the Institute of Biomaterials, entitled: "Advanced systems for corneal tissue engineering". More than 70 members of our Institute and collabora...

On 22-23 March 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani hosted the first (online) partner and "Scientific Focus Groups" (SFG) meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) with participation of the members of the external advisory board. More than 70 participants atte...

Two new studies have been recently published in the context of our research activities in the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1270 ELAINE . Electroconductive hydrogels for Tissue Engineering In a joint effort with the University of Rostock, in this paper (first author: Thomas Distle...

The latest Research in Progress meeting of our DFG  funded project "Ion enriched bioactive glasses for stimulation of bone formation in vitro and in vivo", a collaborative research effort with the research group of Dr. Fabian Westhauser, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Heidelberg Universi...

On 11th March 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani met collegues of Riga Technical University, Rudolfs Cimdins Riga Biomaterials innovations and development centre (Lavtia), Prof. Janis Locs, Prof. Dagnija Loca and  Dr. Arita Dubnika, partners in the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of ...

The kick-off meeting of the international project “Development and characterization of drug free bioactive glass nanoparticles for biomedical applications” funded by the British Council  under the Pakistan-UK Education Gateway scheme took place online on 5th March 2021. There were presentations of t...

Early this month, the *QS World University Rankings® 2021*  was published, which features 1,029 of the most prestigious universities in the world, ranked based on a methodology, which assesses each institution on six metrics, including its reputation amongst academics and employers. Our University a...

Ms Kristin Engel, who carried out her Bachelor thesis in our Institute, has won the Society of Glass Technology (UK) Oldfield Award 2020 (3rd prize) for her Bachelor thesis: “Influence of the replacement of silica by boron trioxide on the properties of bioactive glass scaffolds”. The project was car...

A new microtesting device is now available in our biomaterials laboratory in Ulrich Schalk Strasse. The instrument enables mechanical characterization of small biomaterial samples (specially hydrogels). The device offers a variety of testing setups for parallel plate compression, microindentation (u...