2015

Ms Marta Gallo successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "In vitro degradation of calcium phosphate bone substitutes: coupled monitoring of the evolution of mechanical, microstructural and physico-chemical properties of DCPD and b-TCP samples " on 26th November 2015. She carried out her pr...

During 30.11 - 4.12.2015 we received the visit of Ms Inga Narkevica and Ms Līga Stīpniece PhD students at "Rudolfs Cimdins Riga Biomaterials Innovations and Development Centre", Riga Technical University, Institute of General Chemical Engineering, Latvia. We have been collaborating with researchers ...

The 3rd scientific meeting of the TRANSFORMAS research group took place on 25th November 2015 in the Andreas Wentzensen Research Institute of the BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen. TRANSFORMAS ("Translational Applications for Material Science") is a research initiative between the Institute of Biomateri...

On 24th November 2015 we received the visit of Dr. Annabel Braem, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Materials Engineering (MTM), KU Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Braem is currently visiting the Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion at FAU, Prof. S. Virtanen. Dr. Braem has carried out extensi...

The annual conference of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM) was held on 11-14 November 2015 in Freiburg. The chairman was Prof. Anke Bernstein (University Hospital Freiburg). Results of our projects on biofabrication applied to cancer research were presented by Dr. R. Detsch in the session o...

The latest progress meeting of the EU project ReBioStent (Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents)  took place on 5-6 November 2015 in Heidelberg, Germany, at the premises of Eurescom one of the consortium partners. Doctoral researcher Elena Boccardi (pictured with ...