Year: 2022

On 4-5 April 2022 we received the visit of a delegation of engineering students from Technology University of Pereira (UTP), Colombia. The visit was sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Prof. Boccaccini welcomed the visitors and introduced the teaching and research activities of...

On 30-31 March 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Ms Zoya Hadzhieva and Marcela Arango-Ospina attended the second partner and “Scientific Focus Groups” (SFG) meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) with participation of the members of the external advisory board. The meeting was ...

On 30th March 2022, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the webinar "Future of 4D printing in healthcare: AI platform for hyper-personalization and regenerative medicine", invited by Prof. Boonrat Lohwongwatana, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, and co-founder of Metic...

The first progress meeting of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD network "Perspectives For Future Innovation in Tendon repair (P4FiT)" took place on 24th March 2022 in Groningen, NL, hosted by project coordinator Prof. Helder Santos. The PhD students on this project, Florencia Diaz, Francesco Iorio, Seyma Se...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 2nd International Conference on “Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine”, which was held in hybrid format on 15-17th March, 2022. The conference was organised by our Institute's alumnus Dr. Ing. Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman, curre...

Dr. Rainer Detsch, Ms Susanne Heid (PhD student) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the progress meeting of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” held in hybrid form on 15-17 March 2022 in Kloster Banz, Germany. Th...

On 7-12 March 2022 we received the visit of Prof. Gustavo Abraham, Head of the Biomedical Polymers Division at National Institute for Materials Research (INTEMA), National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina. The visit took place in the framework of the IDEAR program funded by the German-...

Usanee Pantulap, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials (supervisor: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) won the second prize of the best poster/video competition at the Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) Ceramics 2022, which was held online on 7-9 March 2022. Usanee presented a poster a...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the co-organiser TOPIC 06 “Ceramics for Healthcare”, with Prof. Dusan Galusek (Univ. of Trencin, Slokakia), and co-chaired the respective sessions in the framework of the CERAMICS 2022 conference http://www.2021.dkg.de/info/home/en, the 97th Annual Meeting of the German ...

Many international researchers, collaborators, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students have selected our Institute to carry out their research projects in this winter-spring term 2022. They are working on a wide variety of biomaterial topics, including biopolymer-bioactive glass composites ...