Year: 2024

On 23rd October we received the visit of Prof. Claudia Fleck from the Institute of Materials Science, TU Berlin. Prof. Fleck and Prof. Boccaccini are principal investigators in the DFG  funded Research Unit FOR 5657 (BIOAntiFatigue). In this project, members of our Institute (Dr. Irem Unalan, Prof. ...

The Workshop "Reliability of Implants and Biostructures" of the "German Society for Materials Research and Testing (Deutsche Verband für Materialforschung und –prüfung (DVM)" took place on 23-24 October 2024 in Erlangen, co-organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Prof. Ulrich Lohbauer  (University Ho...

Dr. Leonard Bauer from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, visited the Institute of Biomaterials in October 2024. During his stay Dr. Bauer, together with Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva (Post-Doc) and Meng Li (Ph.D. student), worked on the DAAD-funded project “Bioa...

Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva, Marcela Arango Ospina and Prof. Aldo Boccaccini successfully organized the annual BBCE (Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence) summer school on scientific writing at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials in Erlangen on 14-18 October 2024. The event was attended by early career res...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Hsuan-Heng Lu, Francesco Iorio (PhD students) and Dr. Liliana Liverani (visiting researcher in our Institute) attended the “4th Conference on Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare” (BioMah) in Rome, Italy. Prof. Boccaccini was one of the presidents of the confe...

From October 7th to 11th, Dr. Irem Unalan and Ms. Hanna Kissel (Ph.D. student) visited the Diamond Light Source in Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK, to collaborate with Dr. Alberto Leonardi, utilizing the Synchrotron XRD device. The project involves the characterisation of PCL-based melt electrowritten (MEW)...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented a keynote lecture at the “4th Conference on Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare” (BioMaH), which is taking place at the Italian National Research Council Headquarters in Rome, Italy (15-18 October 2024). Prof. Boccaccini is one of the presidents of t...

We are hosting several researchers from FunGlass – Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Trencin, Slovakia, including Dr. Hana Kaňková (senior researcher) and Ph.D. students Mina Abdolmaleki and Nariman Alipanah. We collaborate with Dr. Kaňková specially in the characterisation of ...

On 9th October, we received the visit of Prof. Lina Gölz, director of the FAU Dental Clinic-3, Orthodontics and her co-worker Ms Gabriele Rodrian, who also toured our laboratories together with Ms. Marcela Arango-Ospina (Ph.D. student in our Institute). We have identified interesting areas for colla...

Dr. Rainer Detsch, Ms. Hsuan-Heng Lu (PhD student) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting 2024 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM), which was held on 10-12 October 2024 in Berlin. Dr. Detsch and Ms. Lu presented posters related to our work on bioinks in the framework of t...