Year: 2025

On 3-4 February 2025 we received the visit of Ass. Prof. Francesco Baino from Institute of Materials Physics and Engineering, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Prof. Baino is an expert in the field of scaffolds for bone tissue engineering and bioactive glasse...

The General Assembly and Update Meeting of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1540) "Exploring Brain Mechanics"  was held on 31st January 2025 in Erlangen. Prof. Boccaccini presented a summary of the progress in research project "X03: Engineering brain tissue-like matrices", of which ...

Many international researchers, including guest professors, post-docs, visiting PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Winter term 2024/25. We are hosting guests from 14 (!) different countries, who are working on n...

The kick-off meeting of the project "Engineering Vascularized Implants for Personalised Osteochondral Tissue Regeneration: From medical imaging to pre-clinical validation", EngVIPO, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01-01, ID: 101183041), took plac...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia. The award was conferred at the ceremony of the Grand Opening of the new building of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE) in Riga, Latvia, on 20th January 2025. Prof. Boccacc...

On 29th January 2025, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) co-chaired the FEMS online event exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Materials Science, which brought together leading experts from industry and academia to d...

Co-organised by the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) and the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), the Joint E-MRS - FEMS Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Materials Science & Engineering, was successfully held in Brussels on 23rd January under the Auspices of ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini chaired the first meeting of the year of the Management Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), which took place online on 17th January 2025. Prof. Boccaccini is the president of FEMS for the period 2024-2025 and represents the German Materials So...

The Grand Opening of the new building and premises of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE) (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 857287) in Riga, Latvia, took place on 20th January 2025. The building is placed in the Riga Technical University (RTU) student campus in Ķīpsala. This modern b...

We are happy to present our new logo! The logo was selected by the vote of all participants at the 15th Anniversary symposium of the Institute, held last November in Erlangen. Many thanks to Ms Camilla Boccaccini (San Rafael, Argentina) for helping us with the design.