Year: 2024

On 26th November 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an invited lecture in the framework of the Seminar course of the Master's degree in "Biomaterials and Nano Medicine" at University of Aveiro, Portugal. The host was Prof. José Almeida of CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials. Prof. Boccaccin...

Ms. Hannah Kissel and Ms. Sena Harmancı, PhD students in our institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, visited the Laboratory of Ceramics Processing (ProCer) and the Department of Chemical and Food Engineering (EQA), at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)  in Florianópolis, Brazil, ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a Plenary Speaker at the IV Congress Frontiers in Nanobiotechnology held on 19-21 November 2024 in presence at CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina and online. Prof. Boccaccini attended remotely and presented the talk: "Bioactive glass nanoparticles for tissue engineering, drug...

The meetings of the Board and Management Committee (MC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) took place in the city of Granada, Spain, the city where the 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes conference (EUROMAT 2025)  will be held on 14 – 18 S...

On 11-14 November, Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva and Marcela Arango Ospina (PhD student) attended the Funglass School in Vršatské Podhradie, Slovakia, organized by the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia (FunGlass EU project, 73956...

On 15th November, Prof. Boccaccini and several members of our Institute attended at University Hospital Würzburg the meeting of the Working Group "Bioceramics", a joint activity of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) and the German Society for Materials Science (DGM), currently chaired by Prof. Uwe Gbu...

-6 November 2024, our Institute hosted the Workshop “Advanced drug delivery and drug targeting” 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 agreement No 857287). The ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Final Meeting of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project P4FiT (“PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR”), held in Helsinki, Finland on 6-8 November 2024. In this meeting, all Early Stage Researchers (Ph.D. students) presented a summary of their proj...

Our Institute is currently hosting two top biomaterial scientists, holders of fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Prof. Papia Haque, from the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, working on hydrogels containing mesoporous bioact...

Invited by Prof. Michael G. Monaghan, Director of Research, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Prof. Boccaccini visited TCD on 29-31 October 2024. He delivered the lecture "Bioactive glasses: From bone tissue engineering to biofabrication and ionic medicine" and visited the laborat...