2014

The progress meeting of the FP7 Europan project "Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents" (ReBioStent) took place in Turin (Italy) on 15-16 October 2014. This project is part of FP7 Theme "Biomaterials for Advanced Therapies and Medical Devices in the neurological/n...

The 5th International conference on EPD was held on 6-10 October 2014 in Schloss Hernstein, Austria. More than 85 participants, including senior researchers from academia and industry as well as students coming from more than 24 counties attended the conference, including 6 Keynote speakers, present...

A seminar was held on 2nd October 2014 to inaugurate the new scanning electron microscopy (SEM) facility in the Institute of Biomaterials in collaboration with the Institute of Polymer Materials. This new SEM acquired with support of the German Science Foundation (DFG) belongs to the two mentioned I...

The 6th International Workshop on Advanced Ceramics (IWAC-06) was held in Erlangen on 28-30 September. The symposium was chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and co-chaired by Prof. Peter Greil (Institute of Glass and Ceramics). This series of international workshops, which started in 2004, brings t...

Our Institute was well represented at the Materials Science and Engineering 2014 conference (MSE 2014) held in Darmstadt, Germany on 23-25 September 2014. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a member of the organizing committee and he organized and chaired the symposium "Biomaterials Applications". He also...

During the "Advances in Bioactive Glasses" Symposium held at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) (Liverpool, UK, 3rd September 2014) honouring Professor Larry Hench, the inventor of bioactive glass, the new journal "BIOMEDICAL GLASSES" was launched. Professor Al...

Our Institute had a strong participation at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held in Liverpool on 31st August-3rd September 2014. Professor Boccaccini was a member of the International Advisory Committee of the conference and he chaired two sessions dedicated...

Ms Pooja Basnett (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) completed successfully her PhD project at the University of Westminster, London, UK, under supervision of Dr. Ipsita Roy (Head of Applied Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular and Applied Biosciences, University of Westminster) and wi...