2015

On 22nd July 2015 Bapi Sarker successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Advanced Hydrogels Concepts Based on Combinations of Alginate, Gelatin and Bioactive Glasses for Tissue Engineering", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition of Prof...

The end of the summer term 2015 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials which took place in a glorious summer day in Erlangen (see photos). Early in the week the Student's Seminar "Biomaterials for Medical Engineers" was held at the Institute, as the final teaching ...

Dr. Chris Arts and Ms Nicole A. P. van Gestel, MSc (PhD student) from Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Maastricht UMC+ and Prof. Sandra Hofmann-Boss from Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, pictured with Dr. R. Detsch and Prof. A. R. Boccaccini...

The first review meeting of the EU project ReBioStent (Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents) took place on 15th July 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Doctoral researcher Elena Boccardi and Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting (pictured with ReBioStent scientific coord...

The first Brown Bag Break (BBB) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), under the heading "Networking for hungry researchers", was hosted by the Faculty of Engineering on 10th July 2015. BBB has been recently established at FAU with the aim to stimulate the exchange between young researchers ...

A new group of international undergraduate and graduate students has arrived to carry out internships and short-term research projects at the Institute of Biomaterials. We welcome: Amanda Maria Almeida Coco, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brazil, Ayeska M. P. Barbosa, Centro...

On 7th July 2015 we received the visit of Prof. Guido Grundmeier and Dr. Adrian Keller of the Department of Chemistry at University of Paderborn. We have discussed research collaborations in the field of characterization of bioactive coatings for biomedical applications which involve also research a...

On 2-3 July 2015 we received the visit of Prof. Silvia N. Simison, Department of Electrochemistry and Corrosion, University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, Dr. Ing. Flavio Soldera, Department of Functional Materials, University of Saarland, principal investigators, together with Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccin...

Dr. Agnieszka Piegat and Ms Agata Niemczyk (PhD student), researchers from the Polymer Institute of the West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland, (Head: Prof. Mirka El Fray) are visiting our Institute these days in the framework of our DAAD funded international project "New functio...

Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture "Bioactive and Biodegradable Composites for Regenerative Medicine: Challenges and Perspectives" at the 20th Symposium on Composite Materials, held in Vienna, Austria on 1-3 July 2015. The symposium was organised under the auspices of the German Materials Societ...