Month: May 2022

The latest research in progress 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 23rd May 2022. There were p...

  The degree of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy was conferred on Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), Turku, Finland. The Honorary Doctor degree is in recognition of his successful research in biomaterials and his collaboration with Åbo Akademi University. Specifically...

On 21st May, our Institute participated actively at the Long Night of the Sciences in Erlangen. We presented a stand entitled: “Jelly, gummy bears and joints: a journey through the world of biomedical materials". In particular, we demonstrated the advances of 3D printing of biomaterials. Implants an...

On 16-17 May 2022, our Institute hosted the Workshop "Leadership Training, Project Management, Conflict Management, Negotiation, Communication" in the framework of our training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE), in Riga, Latvia, the EU funded pro...

On 17th May 2022, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the keynote lecture: “Biofabrication with Composite and Multimaterial Bioinks: Progress and Challenges” at the 1st International Conference on Advanced Materials for Bio-Related Applications (AMBRA 2022), held in Wrocław, Poland, on 16-19 May 2022...

On 3rd May 2022, we received the visit of Prof. Kerstin Galler, Director of the Dental Clinic 1 (Operative Dentistry and Periodontology) and Prof. Ulrich Lohbauer, supervisor of the Research Laboratory for Dental Biomaterials at the Dental Clinic 1. We discussed a number of possibilities for collabo...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the keynote lecture: "Bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics releasing multiple biologically active ions for regenerative medicine" at the Second Workshop for Young Researchers in Ceramics and Glasses for Medical Applications (Y-CGMed), held in hybrid form in Madrid ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been appointed as member of the Advisory Board of the Doctoral School "Biomaterials & Biointerfaces" (BioMatlnt) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria. The research focus of the Doctoral School BioMatlnt is on the interactio...

The first meeting of the Institute of Biomaterials in Summer Term 2022 was held online on 28th April 2022, hosted by Prof. Boccaccini and with participation of all members of the Institute, including research and teaching staff, post-doctoral researchers, PhD students, academic visitors, visiting st...