2021

The latest Research in Progress meeting of our DFG  funded project "Ion enriched bioactive glasses for stimulation of bone formation in vitro and in vivo", a collaborative research effort with the research group of Dr. Fabian Westhauser, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Heidelberg Universi...

On 11th March 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani met collegues of Riga Technical University, Rudolfs Cimdins Riga Biomaterials innovations and development centre (Lavtia), Prof. Janis Locs, Prof. Dagnija Loca and  Dr. Arita Dubnika, partners in the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of ...

The kick-off meeting of the international project “Development and characterization of drug free bioactive glass nanoparticles for biomedical applications” funded by the British Council  under the Pakistan-UK Education Gateway scheme took place online on 5th March 2021. There were presentations of t...

Early this month, the *QS World University Rankings® 2021*  was published, which features 1,029 of the most prestigious universities in the world, ranked based on a methodology, which assesses each institution on six metrics, including its reputation amongst academics and employers. Our University a...

Ms Kristin Engel, who carried out her Bachelor thesis in our Institute, has won the Society of Glass Technology (UK) Oldfield Award 2020 (3rd prize) for her Bachelor thesis: “Influence of the replacement of silica by boron trioxide on the properties of bioactive glass scaffolds”. The project was car...

A new microtesting device is now available in our biomaterials laboratory in Ulrich Schalk Strasse. The instrument enables mechanical characterization of small biomaterial samples (specially hydrogels). The device offers a variety of testing setups for parallel plate compression, microindentation (u...

On 26th Feb. 2021, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an online lecture in the framework of the "Materials Science" Seminar series of the Jacobs School of Engineering of University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He was introduced by Prof. Olivia Graeve, Department of  Mechanical and Aerospace ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini started the third consecutive period (2021/22) as member of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), representing the German Materials Society (DGM). The latest meeting of the FEMS EC took place on 24th February 2021 in remote fo...

The third Review Meeting of the Centre for Functional and Surface-functionalised Glasses (FunGlass), EU funded project under the H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 scheme, took place on February 23-24, 2021. This was an online meeting hosted by Prof. Dušan Galusek, director of the FunGlass ...

The restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have not stopped many researchers, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students to come to our Institute to carry out their research projects. They are investigating a wide range of topics, including 3D bioprinting, electrospinning, biopolymer-bi...