2020

The kick-off meeting of our new DFG funded project "Additive Manufacturing of Bone Substitutes from Bioactive Glasses" took place online on 13th October 2020. This project is a joint research effort with the group of Dr. Ralf Mueller, Head of Division 5.6 "Glass", at the Federal Institute for Materi...

On 13th October 2020 Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Qaisar Nawaz (PhD student) attended the progress meeting of the _DFG_ (LINK: _https://www.dfg.de/_ ) funded project on advanced microstructural characterisation of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, which was held remotely. In this project, we col...

The meeting of the Executive Board of the DGM Regionalforum Erlangen was held remotely on 12th October 2020, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (chair of the board). The Board members present were: Prof. Carolin Koerner (FAU), Dr. Tobias Fey (FAU), Prof. Uwe Glatzel (Univ. of Bayreuth), Dr. Thomas G...

Susanne Heid, Jonas Hazur, Emine Karakaya (PhD students), Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models”, held online on 6-9 October 2020. TRR225 has recei...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a keynote speaker at the 6th Cellular Materials conference (CellMAT 2020) held remotely on 07-09 September 2020, a conference organized by the German Materials Society, DGM. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk "Porous Bioceramics and Bioglasses (for Tissue Engineering an...

Prof. Stephanie Willerth, acting director of the Center for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Canada, presented the seminar: "3D bioprinting personalized neural tissues for drug screening" In the framework of our Emerging Fields Initiative (EFI) project "Novel Biopolymer Hydrogels for Und...

We congratulate Katharina Schuhladen, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Development of multifunctional wound dressings by using newly designed ion-doped borosilicate and borate bioactive glasses" on 30th September 2020. She carried out her doctoral project in our Institute supe...

The Summer School on “Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics”, organized by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini in the framework of the EU RISE project AMITIE (“Additive Manufacturing Initiative for Transnational Innovation in Europe”), was successfully held in digital form on 28-30th September. The schedule inclu...

Our Institute was well represented at the Materials Science and Engineering Congress 2020 (MSE 2020),  which took place completely in digital form on 22-25 September 2020. MSE 2020 is the biannual conference of the German Material Society (DGM).  Professor Boccaccini was a member of the _Organizing ...

On 23th September we received the visit of Dr.med.dent. Zeqian Xu, post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Dr. Frank Rupp's Group, Section Medical Materials Science and Technology, University Hospital,  Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Dr Xu's research interest are: biosensors for detecting protein abs...