Year: 2024

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...

On 28th March 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited Prof. Helen H. Lu, the Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory, at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, in New York City, US...

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini to its College of Fellows. AIMBE is the authoritative voice and advocate for the value of medical and biological engineering to society. Election to the AIMBE College of Fell...

The 2nd edition of the Additive Manufacturing for Health (AMH) Workshop took place in Nantes, France, on  20-22 March 2024, organised by Prof. Catherine Le Visage (Nantes University) and Dr. Luciano Vidal (École Centrale Nantes / Clinique Bretéché-Elsan) (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini). Prof. Aldo ...

The Spring Retreat 2024 of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” was held on 18-20 March 2024 in Kloster Banz, Bavaria, Germany. Hsuan-Heng Lu, Jonas Roeder (PhD students, working on projects B03 and A01, respectively...

We congratulate Susanne Heid for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Alginate-based composite bioinks and thermoplastic polymers as biomaterials for sequential 3D printing of tissue constructs and bioreactors” on 15th March 2024. Susanne carried out her doctoral project in our Institu...