Year: 2024

On 21st May 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the invited lecture (online) titled: "Bioactive Glasses: From Bone Regeneration to Wound Healing" at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy. The lecture was hosted by Prof. Elisabetta Rosellini and was direct...

The "Biomaterials-Biofabrication: Emerging Technologies" Conference was held on 16-17 May 2024 at University of Lorraine, in Nancy, France. The conference was organised by Prof. Elmira Arab-Tehrany (Univ. of Lorraine), Prof. Ali Tamayol (Univ. of Connecticut, USA), Prof. Yupeng Chen (Univ. of Connec...

A new meeting of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) was held online on 14th May 2024 online with participation of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The Bioceramics Network was established in 2022 by the European Ceramic Society and is sponsored by the JECS Trust. Th...

Marcela Arango Ospina, PhD student at our institute, carrying out a research project on angiogenic and antibacterial bioactive glasses under supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, won third place in the "1st Bioceramics Student Speech Contest" organized by the ECerS Bioceramics Network, held onlin...

On 10th May 2024, we received the visit of Prof. Delia Brauer and Dr. Coralina Chartier, from the Professorship for Bioactive Glasses, Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research at the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. After the successful completion of...

We congratulate Hazel Simila for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Sol-Gel Synthesis and Application of Ca-Si Nanoparticles as Multifunctional Additives in Restorative Dentistry” on 7th May 2024. Hazel carried out her doctoral project in our Institute supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boc...

The 1st Symposium on Materials Science and Engineering organized by the Network of Scientific Researchers in Germany (RCAA) was held on 2-3 May 2024 at the Institute of Materials Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany.  The symposium was organised by Prof.  Guillermo Requena, an...

The 17th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials (ScSB2024) took place in Helsingør, Denmark, on 23-26 April 2024. Prof. Boccaccini opened the conference with a Plenary talk entitled: "Exploring biologically active ions (bioinorganics) for applications in tissue engineering by in...

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...