2021

The end-of-the-year 2021 meeting at the Institute of Biomaterials took place online on 16th December 2021 with participation of more than 70 Institute members. Professor Boccaccini gave a presentation summarizing the accomplishments of our Institute in 2021, including 5 successfully defended doctora...

Dr. Magdalena Stevanovic from Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Centre for Fine Particles Processing and Nanotechnologie <http://www.itn.sanu.ac.rs/centeradvance.htm>, in Belgrade, visited our Institute on 8-10 December. We are currently collaborating...

At the end of the year, we said good bye to several of our visitors: Dr. Mirna Sanchez returned to Argentina after her DAAD funded research stay, Meriem Bembli, Xinxin Ding and Jaime Orellana, all visiting PhD students, returned to Tunisia, China and Spain, respectively, to continue their research p...

With funding of more than 12 million Euros the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB)/Transregio 225 project “From the basics of biofabrication to functional tissue models” is starting the second phase in January 2022. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is led by the Univ...

This month we said good-bye to Dr. Liliana Liverani, a valuable and key member of our Institute for more than seven years, firstly as visiting PhD student, and then as post-doctoral researcher (Marie Curie fellow) and research lecturer. Liliana contributed enormously to the progress and growth of ou...

The third edition of the successful book series  "Tissue Engineering using Ceramics and Polymers", co-edited by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU Institute of Biomaterials), Prof. Peter X. Ma (University of Michigan, USA), and Dr. Liliana Liverani (FAU Institute of Biomaterials). More details: here

On 6th December, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the webinar series organized by the Young Scientists Forum (YSF) United North (the YSF national chapters in Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltics) for young scientists, which is endorsed by the YSF of the European Society for Biomate...

On 2nd December 2021, Dr. Qingqing Yao, Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, presented the invited talk: "Functionalized 3D scaffolds for bone regeneration" in the framework of the series of seminars "Advances in Biomaterials 2021" ...

We congratulate Thomas Distler for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “Development and Characterization of a 3D-Printable and Electroconductive Hydrogel for Tissue Engineering” on 29th November 2021. Thomas carried out his doctoral project in our Institute supervised by Prof. Aldo R. ...