2017

The Bavarian University Centre for Latin America (BAYLAT) celebrated 10 years and the inauguration of new offices in Erlangen on 14th July 2017. Prof. Boccaccini is deputy member in the BAYLAT board. BAYLAT is currently funded one of our research projects with Argentina. In the photos Prof. Boccac...

  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 15th Conference and Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS), held on July 9-13, 2017, in Budapest, Hungary. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Expanding applications of bioactive glasses in tissue engineering and wound he...

The 2nd "Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare" (BioMaH) Conference will be held in Rome, Italy on October 8-11, 2018. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, Erlangen, Germany) and Prof. Mauro Alini (Vice-Director AO Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland) will serve as ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the invited lecture "Biodegradable and bioactive composite materials in tissue engineering" at the "21st Symposium on Composites - Verbundwersktoffe 2017" held on 5-7 July 2017 in Bremen, Germany. The presentation was in the framework of the special session "Recent...

Prof. Andres F. Lasagni, affiliated with TU Dresden, Institute of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, and Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS Dresden, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 4th July 2017. He presented the lecture "Direct Laser Interference Patterning: from...

On 3-4 July 2017 we received the visit of Dr. Xiaoju Wang from the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry of Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, led by Prof. Leena Hupa. We have a long term collaboration with the group of Prof. Hupa in the field of bioactive glasses for bone tissue engineering. Dr....

Prof. Leena Hupa, Åbo Akademi Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre, Finland, Prof. Delia Brauer, University of Jena, Germany, and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Institute of Biomaterials, Erlangen, the editors of the volume "Bioactive Glasses: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications" published by R...

On occasion of the Slovak and Czech Glass Conference and Seminar on Defects in Glass held in Trenciaske Teplice, Slovakia, a meeting of coordinator, principal investigators and international partners of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glasses (FunGlass) took place on 27th June 2...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Slovak and Czech Glass Conference and Seminar on Defects in Glass that took place in Trenciaske Teplice, Slovakia, on June 28-30, 2017, chaired by Prof. Dusan Galusek, Alexander Dubček University,Trenčín, Slovakia. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lectu...

In April 1997, while being a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Mechanics and Materials, at University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA, Aldo R. Boccaccini became a member of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). Prof Boccaccini says: "the American Ceramic Society has been a very impo...