Year: 2022

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...

The first meeting of the Erlangen PhD students in the second funding period of the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR 225 ‘From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models’ was held on 27th April at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Being the...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Emerging Biomaterials for Advanced Applications (ICEBAA-2022), which was held during April 21-22, 2022 in virtual mode. The conference was jointly organised by Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu and Sibar Institute of Dent...

On 18-22 April 2022 we received the visit of Dr. Joanna Sadowska, senior post-doctoral researcher at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Dublin, Ireland. She is a member of the Tissue Engineering Research Group at RCSI, led by Prof. Fergal O'Brien. We are collaborating with Dr. Sadowska...

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) tops the list of German universities in the category “Citations per Faculty”, according the the latest edition of the prestigious “QS World University Rankings(R)”. In this important category that indicates the impact of the research being carried out acros...

We are currently hosting three JECS Trust  fellowship holders at the Institute of Biomaterials. Dr. Monica Furko, Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), Hungary,  is characterizing the cytocompatibility and antibacteri...

On 8th April 2022, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Scientific Symposium "Bioactive dental restorative materials”,  invited by Associate Professor Danijela Marović, Department of Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb. The symposi...

We are pleased to have six researchers from the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia, carrying out their long term research /training visits to our Institute. Dr. Germán Andrés Clavijo Mejía is working on radiopaque...