Month: June 2022

The second DGM Regionalforum Erlangen was held on 20th June 2022 in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (WW) of University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with more than 60 participants. The Forum was hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Prof. Mathias Goeken, Prof. Carolin Koerner and Dr. Tobia...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a plenary speaker at the Virtual International Scientific Conference on “Applications of Chemistry in Nanosciences and Biomaterials Engineering” NanoBioMat 2022 – Summer Edition, held on 22-23 June 2022. The conference was organised by The Academy of Romanian Scientists...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held in hybrid form, in presence in Bordeaux, France, and online, on 21-22 June 2022. Prof. Boccaccini serves in the ESB Council as ESB vice-president and as officer (liaison) for the ESB Youn...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a keynote speaker at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials, held in Jurmala, Latvia, on 13-15 June 2022. Prof. Boccaccini attended remotely and presented the talk: "Bioactive glass meets biofabrication: new approaches for tissue engineering...

The first annual meeting (in presence) of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR" (P4FIT) took place in Paestum, Italy, on 8-10 June 2022, organized by Prof. Giovanna Della Porta, University of Salerno. All Early Career Researchers (PhD students) p...

On 6-8 June 2022, our Institute hosted in Erlangen two Workshops in the framework of our training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE), in Riga, Latvia, the EU funded project (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 857287). The titles of the workshops wer...

As part of the activities to celebrate the United Nations International Year of Glass 2022 (IYoG 2022) in Erlangen, our Institute is in charge of the display window in the Erlangen city centre at the Optikmeisterei on Neustädter Kirchenplatz in June. The window is dedicated to different topics aroun...

Florencia Diaz, PhD student at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, won the ‘Best Poster’ Award at the Final Achilles Conference "Tendon Regeneration: a throwback to the lessons learned and prospects to the future", which was held in person on May 25th – 27th, 2022, in Guimaraes, Portugal. She present...