Year: 2021

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini provided insights on the use of bioactive glasses in medical applications, particulary in soft tissue repair, which appeared in an excellent article by April Gocha and Lisa McDonald, entitled "Better bodies with biomaterials", published in the December 2020 issue of the Bull...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was one of a distinguished group of lecturers (faculty member) presenting at the 2nd ICG-CGCRI Tutorial on Glass 2021 , co-organised by the The International Commission on Glass (ICG) and CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute , Kolkata, India, which took pl...

The first part of the kick-off meeting of the EU funded project "Per­spect­ives for Fu­ture Innovation in Ten­don Re­pair" (P4 FIT) took place remotely on 22nd January 2021.  33+ participants from 10 different countries and 21 different institutions (universities and companies) attended the meeting,...

Already the third group meeting of the Institute of Biomaterials in 2021 (!) took place on 15th Jan. 2021, with participation of almost all members of the Institute and with four excellent presentations of Bachelor students of our materials science, medical technology and nanotechnology courses, on ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has recently joined as member the Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI). BPI is an initiative of the Universities Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Würzburg to combine the existing expertise in the three universities in the fields of polymer science and polymer engineering. BPI pr...