2015

Prof. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the International Bone Tissue Engineering Congress, bone-tec 2015, held in Stuttgart, Germany, on 8-10 October 2015. The conference was chaired by Prof. Katja Schenke-Layland (Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, IGB,...

In the framework of the I.DEAR program we are hosting three Master students from University of Mar del Plata (UNMDP), Argentina. Agustina Massone, Luciano Fissore and Joan Gagliardo (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) will work on research projects in the field of electrospun biopolymer fibres, bioacti...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2015) in Warsaw, Poland, September 20 – 24, 2015. He was the coordinator of topic F2: Tissue Engineering; Regenerative Medicine; Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery within Area F (Biomateri...

Professor A. R. Boccaccini participated at the Materials Weekend in Warsaw, Poland, on 19-20 September 2015, which was organised filling the gap between two major week-long European materials events: E-MRS Fall Meeting 2015 and FEMS EUROMAT 2015. The Materials Weekend took place at Warsaw University...

We received the visit of Dr. Jurij Koruza, Dr. Matias Acosta and Mr Jan Schultheiss from the Materials Science Ceramics Group, (Head: Prof. J. Roedel), Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD). We discussed topics for establishing a new research collaboration between our research groups focusing on as...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini received the DGM Award (DGM Preis 2015) from the German Materials Society (DGM) on 16th September 2015 at the Conference and Exhibition "Materialsweek" in Dresden. The award recognizes materials scientists for excellent scientific or technological contributions in the ge...

On 11th September 2015 Marwa Tallawi successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Biomimetic PGS based scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Boccaccini, Dr. Ipsita Roy (Department of Mol...

Dr Ipsita Roy, Head of Applied Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular and Applied Biology, University of Westminster, London, UK, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 10-11 September 2015. We have an extensive collaboration with the group of Dr Roy, which started with research on ...