2011

Congratulations to Bo Pang who recently (19th December 2011) passed his PhD oral examination at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London. The title of his PhD thesis is "Optomechanical borosilicate glass matrix composites". Bo was supervised by Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr David ...

Ms. Piyachat Chuysinuan, PhD student in the Applicable and Industrial Polymeric Materials Research group (Head: Prof. Dr. Pitt Supaphol) at The Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 1st December 2011. She gave a seminar on...

The research project "Bioactive materials, cell and tissue printing: New therapeutic approaches for organ level tissue engineering and regenerative medicine" has been selected as one of the University's "Emerging Fields" projects and it will be funded for 2 years.Coordinator is Prof. Aldo R. Boccacc...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the 2nd meeting of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA), which was held on 17-18th November 2011 in Berlin. Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the area "Engineering" and a member of the Advisory Committee...

Dr. Alejandro Gorustovich, research scientist of CONICET and Universidad Catolica de Salta (Argentina) visited our Institute in November in the framework of a DAAD scholarship. Currently we collaborate with Dr. Gorustovich's group in the area of collagen/bioactive glass composite scaffolds and effe...

In the framework of the international collaboration between the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institute of Ceramics Research and Education), Ms Chikako Nakamura, student in the Graduate School of Engineering at NITECH, is visiting our Institute unt...

The Sino-German Symposium on "Multifunctional Biomaterials and Polymer-based Controlled Drug Release Systems" was held at the Centre for Biomaterial Development, Helmoltz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Campus Teltow, on October 26-30, 2011. The Symposium was chaired by Prof. Andreas Lendlein (HZG) and Pr...

Our institute established a new laboratory for Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology students of our University. The experiments demonstrate the application of the electrophoretic deposition technique to develop homogeneous coatings for biomedical applications and is designed to provi...