Month: July 2022

Many international researchers, collaborators, PhD students and undergraduate visiting (Erasmus) students have selected our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Summer of 2022. They are working on a wide range of biomaterial topics, which include tissue engineering scaffolds by ...

The 4th Review Meeting of the Centre for Functional and Surface-functionalised Glasses (FunGlass) EU funded project under the H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 scheme, took place on 27th July 2022 online. The meeting was hosted by Prof. Dušan Galusek, director of the FunGlass Center, with ...

The kick-off meeting of our new DFG funded 3-year project "Osteogenic and angiogenic potential of mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles doped with molybdenum and boron" took place online on 25th July. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Fabian Westhauser and his team at Center of Orthopedic...

On 21-22 July 2022 we received the visit of Prof. Antonio Salinas, affiliated with the Vallet Regi Group at the Department of Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sciences of Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. We discussed research collaboration with Prof. Salinas in the field of ion doped bioactive gl...

Akrity Anand received the Young researchers‘ BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD, topic: “Gels Porous Materials”, at FEMS Junior Euromat 2022 conference in Coimbra, Portugal (19-22 July, 2022). Akrity is a PhD student of the University of Trencin, FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia, supervised by Prof. D...

Members of our Institute participated at the Junior Euromat 2022 conference held in Coimbra, Portugal, on 19-22 July 2022. The Junior Euromat conference series is a conference of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), which is organised every two years in different European countries...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini gave an oral presentation at the 23th Symposium "Verbundwerkstoffe und Werkstoffverbunde" (Composites and Material Composites) (VERBUND 2022),  held in hybrid format (on line and in-presence in Leoben, Austria) on 20-22 July 2022. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk "Advance...

We congratulate Qaisar Nawaz for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled "Multifunctional SiO2-CaO based mesoporous bioactive glasses with therapeutic ion and biomolecule releasing capability” on 21st July 2022. He carried out his doctoral project in our Institute supervised by Prof....

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Board of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), chaired by FEMS president Prof. Anna Zervaki, which took place in hybrid form on 21st July  2022 in the framework of the Junior Euromat 2022 conference.  Prof. Boccaccini is the repre...

On 19th July, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the invited talk: "Cincuenta Años de Vidrios Bioactivos: Desde Regeneración Osea Hasta Tratamiento de Heridas" ("50 years of bioactive glasses: from bone regeneration to wound healing") in the framework of the CaliBaja Webinars, International Year of ...