2013

On 24-26 November 2013, Prof. Boccaccini visited the Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb (Croatia), in the framework of our collaboration with Prof. Neven Zarkovic and Dr Lidija Milkovic. This project investigates the development and characterisation of Cu-doped bioactive glasses for bone regenerati...

On 20th November we received the visit of Prof. Toshihiro Kasuga and Prof. Yuji Iwamoto (in the photo with Prof. Boccaccini) of the Department of Frontier Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) . This visit is in the framework of our continous research col...

The 6th scientific seminar of the North-Bavaria Biomaterials Alliance (NBBA) was held on 19th November 2013 at the University of Bayreuth, hosted by Prof. Thomas Scheibel, with participation of professors and young researchers from Würzburg, Erlangen and Bayreuth. Representing the Erlangen Institute...

Dr. Antonella Sola, a research scientist at the Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" of the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy, is visiting our Institute. We collaborate in a project investigating the fabrication and functionalisation of bioactive glass scaffolds based on novel silica...

The Workshop "Mechanical characterisation of ceramic-based materials at different scales" of the BioBone EU ITN project was held in Lyon, France, on 6-7 November 2013. Following the workshop, the mid-term review meeting took place on 8th November, where both Preethi Balasubramanian  and Valentina Mi...

On 4th November we received the visit of Prof. F. Rossignol and Prof. Z. Haidar from the Science of Ceramic Processing and Surface Treatments, SPCTS, European Ceramic Centre in Limoges, France. There are strong links between our Institute and SPCTS and we discussed expanding our collaborations in th...

Wir freuen uns, Prof. Jürgen Stampfl vom Lehrstuhl Werkstoffwissenschaften und -technologien der Technischen Universität Wien im Zeitraum Oktober/November 2013 bei uns zu Besuch zu haben. Sein Besuch läuft im Rahmen unseres TOPbiomat-Projektes ab, das von der Emerging Field Initiative der Universitä...