Year: 2023

In the week 8-12 May 2023 we received the visit of Dr. Anamarija Rogina and Dr. Leonard Bauer from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia. We are collaborating with the research group of Dr. Rogina in the framework of the DAAD funded project "Bioactive comp...

On 11th May 2023 we received the visit of Dr. Florian Groeber-Becker, Director of the Fraunhofer-Translational Center Regenerative Therapies (TLC-RT) - Würzburg. Dr. Florian Groeber-Becker gave an invited seminar in our Institute on the activities of the TLC-RT with focus on "In vitro skin models as...

Ms Clara Dourado Fernandes and Ms Isabela Karina Della Flora, PhD students from Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC),  Florianópolis, Brazil, have started their research period in our Institute. Clara and Isabela are PhD students in the framework of the project “Ph.D. with Double Degree UFSC-...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Zoya Hadzhieva, Qaisar Nawaz (PhD students) attended the 7th European Symposium on Biomaterials and Related Areas BioMAT 2023, that took place in Weimar, Germany, on 3-4 May 2023, under the sponsorship of the German Materials Society (DGM) (co-chairs, Prof. K. Jandt, Jena, ...

On 26.04 - 02-5.2023, we received the visit of Ioanna Koumentakou (PhD student at Chemistry Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and Rezos Bikiaris (PhD student at Chemistry Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). They visited the Institute of Biomaterials...

The classical "coffee and cakes" Spring meeting of PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and international visitors of the Institute of Biomaterials took place on 30th April. Despite a few members missing this social get-together, more than 40 people attended, and eighteen (!) nationalities were r...

We are currently hosting two JECS Trust (European Ceramic Society) fellowship holders at the Institute of Biomaterials. Mr Reza Samiee (PhD student at FunGlass Centre, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia), working on surface modification of NiTi alloy by coating composite layers, and Mr...

On 18th April 2023, Prof. Boccaccini and Dr. Irem Unalan visited Berlin, in particular Prof. Claudia Fleck and Dr. Oliver Goerke at the Institute of Material Science and Technology, Technical University Berlin. They also visited Prof. Paul Zaslansky, Dr. Franziska Schmidt and Dr. Manja von Stein-Lau...

Our plans to collaborate with the research group of Prof. Marco C. Bottino at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, USA, have been realized with the first visit of our PhD student Ms. Hazel Simila. Hazel is spending two weeks in Prof. Bottino's lab carrying out focused cell biology and ant...

In the framework of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre CRC /SBF 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics (EBM) we have established a very effective collaboration with Dr. Renato Frischknecht, Department Biology, Chair of Animal Physiology (Prof. Dr. Brandstätter). Our collaboration with Dr. Frischk...