Year: 2023

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 online on 6th June 2023. Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials Society (DGM) in FEMS Board sin...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was a co-chair of the "3rd International Conference on Alkali Activated Materials and Geopolymers: Sustainable Construction Materials and Ceramics Made Under Ambient Conditions", held on May 28 – June 2, 2023  in Cetraro (Calabria, Italy), organised in the framework of t...

Iouliana Chrysafi (PhD, Chemistry Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) visited the Institute of Biomaterials from 31.05 until 07.06.2023 in the framework of the Greek-German collaboration project funded by IKY-DAAD. As participants of the German research group, Prof. Aldo Bocc...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2023 held in Strasbourg, France, on May 29 to June 2, 2023. Professor Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses as multifunctional biomaterials for tissue engineering, drug delivery and biofabrication" in symposium H "Advanc...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Irem Unalan, Dr. Qaisar Nawaz and Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina (PhD student) attended a series of events at the FunGlass – Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia (FunGlass EU project, 739566). They participat...

Zoya Hadzhieva and Faina Bider (PhD students at the Institute of Biomaterials) visited the Chemistry and Dentistry Departments of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, from 17.05 until 26.05.2023 in the framework of IKY-DAAD Project on bioactive polymer-bioceramic scaffolds (FAU Principal In...

On 22nd May  we received the visit of Assoc. Professor Mohd Muzamir Mahat, Head of Research Communications & Visibility Management, Office Deputy of Vice-Chancellor (Research &  Innovation), Faculty of Applied Sciences, University Technology MARA, (UiTM) Malaysia. He presented the lecture: "...

On 15-17 May 2023 we received the visit of Dr. Agata Sotniczuk from Warsaw University of Technology, Division of Materials Design, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw, Poland. We are expanding our collaboration with Dr. Sotniczuk in the field of electrophoretic coatings for biomedic...

On 15-16 May 2023, our Institute hosted the Workshop “Functionalized scaffolds for tissue engineering applications” in the framework of our training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE), in Riga, Latvia, EU-funded project (Horizon 2020, grant agreem...

Following an invitation from Assist. Prof. Kai Zheng (former PhD student in our Institute)and the organizing team at School of Stomatology of Nanjing Medical University, Professor Boccaccini presented on 13th May 2023 the plenary lecture: "Applications of bioactive glasses in tissue engineering and ...