Year: 2021

We congratulate Florian Ruther for successfully defending his doctoral thesis entitled “Development and characterization of a multi-layer patch with improved electrical stimulus transmission and self-regulating elastic properties for application in cardiac tissue engineering” on 4th June 2021. He ca...

The INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROCESSING & MANUFACTURING OF ADVANCED MATERIALS (THERMEC'2021) took place online on 2-5 June 2021. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered the keynote presentation entitled: "Biofabrication with composite bioinks: emerging approaches and challenges" in the session Adv...

Even with the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students have found their way to our Institute to carry out their research projects on a wide variety of biomaterial topics, including 3D printing, electrospinning, biopolymer-bioac...

Ms Maria Wątroba, PhD student at the AGH University of Science and Technology,  Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science, Krakow, Poland, has completed her stay at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Maria was recipient of a visiting fellowship...

Hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the latest online seminar of the _Collaborative Research Centre TRR225 took place on 27th May. The speaker was Prof. Heidi Declercq,  Tissue Engineering Lab, Department of Development and Regeneration, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Belgium, who presented the tal...

We are happy to announce that this year our Institute will start several research projects in collaboration with partners in Argentina. With the National Institute of Materials Technology (INTEMA), National University of Mar del Plata, we will start the project “Enhancing stainless steel implants: p...

On 26th May 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the _"First International Workshop on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering", organised by our alumnus Dr. Ing. M. Atiq Ur Rehman,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Space Technology Islamabad, Pakistan. Pro...

On May 24, 2021, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the Inaugural Materials Science and Engineering Seminar of the Department of Polymer and Biomaterials Science at West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland, hosted by Professor Miroslawa El Fray, Head, Department of Polymer and ...

On 22nd May 2021, Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the online BESCO Vitruvian conference on Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering organised by Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) Bioengineering Student Community (BESCO). Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive Glasses in B...

On 17th May 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani organized the workshop "Project writing and project partner search" of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE). More than 50 participants attended the meeting which included six invited presentations and a final discussi...