2016

Will Lepry, PhD student at Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, working under supervision of Prof. Showan Nazhat, is visiting our Institute in the framework of a DAAD funded project. Will’s research project at our Institute focuses on creating three dimensional bioactive glass...

The first meeting of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network - European Industrial Doctorate (ITN-EID) "Drug-Free Antibacterial Hybrid Biopolymers for Medical Applications (HyMedPoly)", including the training and workshop sessions, was held on 8-10 February 2016 in Turin, Italy, hoste...

We recently received the visit of Michail Klontzas, MD, PhD Candidate in the group of Prof. Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris, Biological Systems Engineering Laboratory (BSEL), Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. Our previous collaboration with Prof. Mantalaris' BSEL group is n...

The first year meeting of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network "Advanced glasses, Composites And Ceramics for High growth Industries European Training Network" (CoACH), including the training and workshop sessions, was held on 1-5 February 2016 in Brno, Czech Republic, hosted at the ...

On 2-3 February 2016 we received the visit of Prof. Tomohiko Yoshioka, Biomaterials Laboratory, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Japan. Prof. Yoshioka was an academic visitor in our Institute in 2012 and we have established collaboration in the field of electrop...

Professor Milo Shaffer, co-director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) and Professor of Materials Chemistry at both the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Materials of Imperial College London, UK, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 2-3 February 2016. He presented the lect...

On 29th January 2016 Sigrid Seuss successfully defended her doctoral thesis in the field of electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of bioactive and antibacterial coatings for biomedical applications, carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Bocca...

Samira Tansaz, PhD student in our Institute, received the best poster award at the conference Wound Healing 2016 held on 26-28th of January in London, UK. The poster was entitled “Soy protein based hydrogels for wound healing“ and co-authors were S. Tansaz, A. K. Durmann, R. Detsch, M. Schulte, U. K...

On 22nd January 2016, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Biomaterials and biofabrication in tissue engineering: progress and challenges" in the framework of the Multidisciplinary Seminar Program (MSP) at the Department of Chemical Engineering, (LINK: http://www.etseq.urv.es/9deq/en/ ) ...

In the framework of our research collaboration and Erasmus exchange program with AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, Krakow, Poland, we received the visit of Ms Aleksandra Wajda, PhD student at AGH University of Science and Technology under supervisio...