Month: April 2024

On 25-26 April, we received the visit of Assist. Professor Yongcong Fang, member of the BRE Lab and affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. Hosted by Dr. Rainer Detsch, Prof. Fang visited the laboratories of the Institute of Biomaterials and discussed wi...

Augusto Covone, a student from the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, who carried out a research internship at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials in the framework of the I.DEAR Program (Engineers Deutschland-Argentina, (part of the German-Argentine Univer...

The Annual Meeting of the Scientific Board of the FunGlass Centre (University of Trencin, Slovakia) took place on 18th April 2024, chaired by FunGlass Director, Prof. Dušan Galusek. The meeting was attended by board members from advanced partner institutions: *Prof. Alicia Durán* (CSIC Madrid), *Pro...

Assoc. Prof. Hamza Simsir, Karabük University, Turkey, visited the FAU Institute of Biomaterials on 17-19 April 2024, in the framework of an Erasmus's short-term mobility program. He presented the seminar: "Introduction to hydrothermal carbon materials and their applications" to all members of the I...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the European Training Network (ETN) BIOREMIA ("BIOfilm-REsistant Materials for hard tissue Implant Applications") (Horizon 2020-MSCA) Final Workshop held on 15-17 April in Vienna, Austria. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Bioactive glasses m...

Marcela Arango Ospina, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials, attended the Pan American Ceramics Congress and Ferroelectrics Meeting of Americas held in Panama on 7-11 April, organised by the American Ceramic Society. Marcela gave a talk during the Bioceramics session on "Antibacterial proper...

The first meeting of the Research Unit “Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue” (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), took place on 12th April 2024 at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), hosted by Prof. Claudia Fleck, from the Institute for Materials Science, TU Be...

The first meeting of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS)  was held online on 9th April 2024 online with participation of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, a founding member of the network. The Bioceramics Network was established in 2022 by the European Ceramic Societ...

The classical “coffee and cakes” Spring meeting of PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and international visitors of the Institute of Biomaterials took place on 7th April. Despite a few members missing this social get-together, numerous group members attended, and twelve (!) nationalities were r...

Prof. Hélder A. Santos, Head of the Department of Biomaterials and Biomedical Technology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Director and Head of the Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering Lab, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland, visi...