Year: 2022

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...

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...