2014

On 4th August Prof. Jie Wei of the Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of the Ministry of Education and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, visited our Institute and presented the talk: "Bioactive biomaterials for bone...

Prof. Dr. Neven Zarkovic of the "Rudjer Boskovic Institute" in Zagreb (Croatia) visited our Institute this week in the framework of our DAAD funded collaborative project "Cu-Bioglass in bone regeneration strategies". The collaboration with Prof. Zarkovic and his team at the Laboratory of Oxidative S...

Dr Adel Francis, senior researcher at Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute (CMRDI), Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, is currently visiting our Institute with funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We are collaborating with Dr Francis in the field of bioactive coatings on Mg all...

The end of the summer term 2014 was marked by holding the Scientific Seminar on 21th July with participation of Dr Ulrich Lohbauer collaborator from the Research Laboratory for Dental Biomaterials at the Dental Clinic 1 (Operative Dentistry and Periodontology) and co-supervisor of the projects of se...

Professor Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the Workshop: "Materials for Health: a Value Chain in the Frame of H2020" held on 16-17 July 2014 at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. He presented the lecture: "Composite materials for multifunctional tissue engineering scaffolds". The workshop was...

On 14th July 2014 Alexander Hoppe successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Bioactive glass derived scaffolds with therapeutic ion releasing capability for bone tissue engineering", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. Alexander is the third PhD ...

In the framework of the lecture series "Current Issues in Biomaterials" at the Institute of Biomaterials, on 10th July two collaborators from the Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery (DPHS), University Hospital Erlangen (Director: Prof. R. Horch), gave presentations about their projects being cond...