2013

Dr. Alberto Bolgiani, of "Hospital Aleman", Buenos Aires, Argentina, visited our Institute in August. A collaboration with Dr  Bolgiani's group on the development of novel polymer nanocomposite patches for wound healing applications is being planned which includes also collaborative research with Pr...

Andrea Bagdadi and Pooja Basnett, PhD students based at the University of Westminster, UK, with Dr Ipsita Roy as main supervisor, have recently passed their PhD oral examination. Both were co-supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Andrea and Pooja carried out projects involving the development and ...

The last meeting of the project TOPbiomat funded by the "Emerging Fields Initiative" of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg took place on 24th July at the Institute of Biomaterials organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. (Click image to enlarge) A discussion of the plan of research activities for t...

The end of the summer term 2013 was marked by holding the Institute's Scientific Seminar on 19th July (see photo) with participation of all members and students in the "Electron Microscopy" (led by Prof. Spiecker) and "Erlangen Biomaterials" (led by Prof. Boccaccini) research groups (photo). The da...

Prof. Mirka El Fray, Director of the West Pomeranian Center of Advanced Technologies and Professor at the Polymer Institute, West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) in Szczecin (Poland), visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 15th-19th July 2013. In the framework of an ERASMUS lectureship, ...

The Europe Liaison Office of NITECH was inaugurated at the Engineering Campus of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) on 16th July. In the photo: Prof. Dr. Marion Merklein (Dean of Faculty of Engineering, FAU) and Prof. Ken-ichi Kakimoto (Director, NITech Europe Liaison Office). Last row from ...

On 11-12 July 2013, the 54-month General Meeting of the FP7 EU project "BIOactive highly porous and injectable Scaffolds controlling stem cell recruitment, proliferation and differentiation and enabling angiogenesis for Cardiovascular Engineered Tissues" (BIOSCENT) took place at our Institute, organ...