Year: 2021

The restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have not stopped many researchers, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students to come to our Institute to carry out their research projects. They are investigating a wide range of topics, including 3D bioprinting, electrospinning, biopolymer-bi...

Prof. Boccaccini will be an international partner of the project "Development and characterization of drug free bioactive glass nanoparticles for biomedical applications" funded by the Britisch Council  under the Pakistan-UK Education Gateway scheme. The principal investigator is Dr. Muhammad Atiq U...

Our paper "Porous bioactive glass micro- and nanospheres with controlled morphology: developments, properties and emerging biomedical applications" co-authored by Dr. Kai Zheng, Dr. Baiyan Sui (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China), Ms Kanwal Ilyas (PhD student), and Prof. Aldo R....

On 11th February 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the London Materials Society (LMS) the London branch of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). He presented the talk entitled: "Bioactive materials and biofabrication for tissue engineering: progress and chall...

The latest progress meeting our international project: “Development of electrophoretic co-deposition of bioactive and antibacterial ceramics with biodegradable polymers to produce novel composite coatings for biomedical applications” was held remotely on 9th February 2021. The project has received f...

One core research area in our Institute is the field of biomedical coatings. In 2021, we have published already 7 papers with international collaborators from Argentina, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Pakistan, presenting technologies for the development of bioactive and antibacterial coatings, based on ele...

The second part of the kick-off meeting of the EU funded project “Per­spect­ives for Fu­ture Innovation in Ten­don Re­pair” (P4 FIT) took place remotely on 29th January 2021.  Project partners from 10 different countries and 20+ different institutions (universities and companies) attended the meeti...

This week we said “good bye” to Fatih Kurtuldu and Nurshen Mutlu, who have been visiting PhD students in our Institute for more than 1 year. They visited our Institute in the framework of the training program for young scientists of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlas...

On 28th January, Ms Florencia Abinzano, PhD candidate at the Department of Orthopeadics, University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht, Netherlands, presented the invited talk "Biofabrication technologies and their applications to cartilage tissue" in the Seminar Series "Advances in Biomaterials 2021" at ...

On 27th January 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the fist meeting of the Editorial Board of the new journal "European Journal of Materials", chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof.  Nikolaos Michailidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The journal has been recently lauched as a fu...