2016

We welcome our visiting researchers from Turkey (Fatih Erdem Baştan, Sakarya University), Spain (Julia M. Urena Alcazar, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid and Eugeni C. Recacha, Inst. of Ceramics Technology, Castellon), Italy (Mariangela Curcio, University of Basilicata, Daniela Trapani, Polytechnic of...

The kick-off meeting of the new DFG funded project on ion-doped bioactive glasses with outstanding high temperature crystallization resistance took place on 30th November 2016 at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), hosted by the Institute for Materials Science, Dispersive Solids (H...

The paper entitled: "Nanocomposite scaffolds with tunable mechanical and degradation capabilities: co-delivery of bioactive agents for bone tissue engineering" has been just published in Biomedical Materials. The paper presents results of our collaborative project with the group of Prof. Viviana Mo...

In the framework of our academic exchange program "Fabrication and osteogenesis of hierarchical scaffold of mesoporous Mg-doped bioactive glass/PBS composites" with the Engineering Research Center for Biomedical Materials of Ministry of Education in East China University of Science and Technology, S...

The International Symposium "Erlangen Institute of Biomaterials: Inauguration of new building and facilities” together with the "3rd Erlangen Symposium on Biomaterials: 'Challenges for the 21st Century” was held on 28th November 2016 at the new building of the Institute of Biomaterials in Erlangen-W...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual General Meeting of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA), which was held on 11th November 2016 at the Embassy of Argentina in Berlin. Prof. Boccaccini represents the area "Engineering" at the Ad...

The progress meeting of the H2020-MSCA-ITN project "Drug-free antibacterial hybrid biopolymers for medical applications" (HyMedPoly) was held on 9-11 November 2016 in Heidelberg, Germany, hosted by the partner EURESCON. The PhD students of the FAU Institute of Biomaterials involved in this project, ...

Professor Boccacccini received the Pfeil Award 2016 of the UK Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) at the IOM3 Special Awards Dinner that took place in London on 8th Nov. 2016. The award recognises published work of particular merit in the field of ceramics and Prof. Boccaccini receive...

Our new paper on bioactive glass-biopolymer composite scaffolds in collaboration with colleagues at University of Chile in the group of Prof. Humberto Palza at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology has been recently published online in the J. Biomed. Mater. Res. Part A . The paper...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the MS&T 2016 conference joint with ACerS 118th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, USA, on 23-27 October 2016. Prof. Boccaccini delivered the lecture and tutorial entitled: "Bioactive Glasses in Soft Tissue Repair. What Do We Know So Far?" related to the prestigious "Art...