2019

The first meeting of the Executive Board of the DGM Regionalforum Erlangen was held on 2nd April 2019 in the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering (WW). The Board members present were: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU, Board Chair), Prof. Mathias Goeken (FAU), Prof. Carolin Koerner (FAU),...

The first meeting and scientific seminar of the DGM Regionalforum Erlangen was held on 2nd April 2019 in the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering (WW). The program included presentations by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Chair of DGM Regionalforum Erlangen and Chair of WW Department), Dr.-...

The kick-off meeting of the new collaborative research project "Novel Biopolymer Hydrogels for Understanding Complex Tissue Biomechanics" took place on 29th March 2019 at The Institute of Applied Mechanics (LTM), hosted by Prof. Paul Steinmann and Dr. Silvia Budday. This is a new research project fu...

The Second Closed Meeting of SFB /TRR 225: "From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models" took place on 25-27 March 2019 in Kloster Banz, Germany. The PhD students in the project based at the Institute of Biomaterials; Susanne Heid, Jonas Hazur and Emine Karakaya attended...

Our review article entled:"Enhancing biological activity of bioactive glass scaffolds by inorganic ion delivery for bone tissue engineering" (co-authors: V. Mouriño, R. Vidotto, J.P. Cattalini, A.R. Boccaccini) was recently published in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering . In this review pape...

On 22nd March 2019 we received the visit of Ms Ana Belén Peñaherrera Pazmiño and Mr Gustavo Rosero, doctoral researchers from Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Regional Haedo and Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IIB-UBA), Faculty of Engineering, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the rese...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the last meeting of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass) held on 13-15 March 2019 at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia. The meeting brought together all scientific board...

Our review paper entitled: "Protein Interactions with Bioactive Glass Surfaces: A Review"has been published in Applied Materials Today (Authors: K. Zheng, M. Kapp, A. R. Boccaccini). This review covers comprehensively for the first time the literature available in the complex field of protein adsorp...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, has been elected member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) of Germany. Election to the Academy is based on scientific achievements and reputation. Members are drawn from the f...

The special issue "Advanced Glasses, Composites and Ceramics for High Growth Industries", resulting from the EU funded (Horizon 2020) ITN project "CoACH", has been published in the journal Materials. The special issue was co-edited by Prof. Milena Salvo (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy), Prof. Mike Reec...