Year: 2024

We thank all Institute’s members, staff, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, students, visiting scientists, collaborators and supporters for the great commitment, hard work and continuous support this year, in which we achieved many goals together! Wishing everyone Happy Holidays, Merry Christm...

Several of our papers have been included in the bibliometric study of the 100 most cited papers about bioactive glasses for bone tissue engineering, by Prof. Marco Bottino (University of Michigan, USA) and co-authors, published in the journal Odontology . Prof. Boccaccini said: "it is interesting to...

On 9-13 December 2024 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. We have established a fruitful collaboration with Prof. Abraham in the frame...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting of the Advisory Board (AB) of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (“Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina”) representing the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). The meeting was held on 13th December in Erlang...

The End-of-Year Meeting and Christmas Dinner of the Institute of Biomaterials were held on 10th December 2024. Permanent staff, PhD students, post-docs, undergraduate students, academic visitors and guests attended the event. Prof. Boccaccini gave a presentation summarizing the main achievements and...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting of Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania), RCAA, held at the EEmbassy of Argentina in Berlin and in hybrid form on 5-6 December 2024. Prof. Boccaccini is the Scientific Coordinator Emeritus of RCAA...

We congratulate Akrity Anand for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Copper-strontium/magnesium co-doped mesoporous bioactive glass for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications” on 28th November 2024. She carried out her doctoral project under the co-tutelle agreement between...

The Institute of Biomaterials hosted the annual meeting of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) (ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL & ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATING PLATFORM) on 2-3 Dec 2024. Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini welcomed the project consortium in presence in Erlangen. The projec...

The international symposium to celebrate the 15 years of the Institute of Biomaterials took place on 29th November 2024 at in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, FAU, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at FAU. The scientific part of the symposi...

We congratulate Binh (Hana) Phan for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “COMBINATION OF BIORESORBABLE POLYESTERS AND ESSENTIAL OILS AS INNOVATIVE ANTIMICROBIAL COATING BIOMATERIALS” on 29th November 2024. Hana carried out her doctoral project in our Institute supervised by Prof. Aldo ...