2013

The 5th scientific seminar of the North-Bavaria Biomaterials Alliance (NBBA) was held on 12th June 2013 at the University of Würzburg, hosted by Prof. Jürgen Groll, with participation of professors and young researchers from Würzburg, Erlangen and Bayreuth. Representing the Erlangen Institute of Bio...

On 10-15 June 2013 we received the visit of Dr Elida Beatriz Hermida, Professor of Materials Science and Director of Research at Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina. Our two universities have signed a collaborative agreement which promotes the interactions and exchanges of students and aca...

Prof. Boccaccini presented the invited talk "Bioactive glasses exhibiting controlled therapeutic ion release for bone regeneration" in Symposium 24: Nanostructured Bioceramics and Ceramics for Biomedical Applications, at the PacRim 10 Conference in Ceramic and Glass Technology held in San Diego (USA...

The project in the field of Cu-doped bioactive glasses in bone regeneration strategies, a collaboration with Dr. Neven Zarkovic and Dr Lidija Milkovic of Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb (Croatia), has been approved by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for funding. Dipl.-Ing. Alexander...

These days we are hosting international students from UK, Italy and Greece. Ms Giorgia Franchin, Master student from the University of Padova, Italy, working in the group of Prof. Paolo Colombo visited our laboratories to investigate the bioactivity of calcium silicate scaffolds. Mr Dimitris Papageo...

Dr Barbara Shollock, Department of Materials, Imperial College London (UK), visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 13-15 May 2013. Dr Shollock presented the lecture "Metals in challenging environments: advanced characterisation of metallic surfaces" in the framework of the Materials Colloquium of ...

Elefteria Roumeli, Doktorandin der Aristotle University von Thessaloniki (AUT), Griechenland, besuchte diesen Monat unseren Lehrstuhl. Der Besuch fand im Rahmen des von der DAAD finanzierten IKYDA-Projektes: "Novel bionanocomposites for bone tissue engineering" statt. Dieses Gemeinschaftsprojekt mac...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, as member of the Advisory Board of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (RCAA), participated at the Meeting of the German-Argentinian Commission on Science and Technology in Berlin on 7-8 May 2013. The long-standing strong collaboration in science and technology...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the International Meeting "Ageing and Osteoporosis: Current situation and future perspectives" which was held on 29th April 2013 in Madrid (Spain). Prof. Boccaccini's presentation was entitled "Progress in the development of bioactive materials with...

On 25th April, Mr Tobias Zehnder (student of Materials Science and Engineering) presented successfully the results of his Master thesis project entitled "Characterisation and processing of alginate-based hydrogels for application in 3-D plotting". This research project was carried out under supervi...