2021

Our Institute had a strong participation at the 6th European Symposium on Biomaterials and Related Areas (BioMAT 2021)  held virtually on 5-7 May 2021, organized by the German Materials Society (DGM) (chairs: Prof. Klaus Jandt and Thomas Keller).  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was one of the plenary spea...

The "Guidelines Committee: Bioprinting" of the The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has been recently established. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Rainer Detsch are fouding members of the commitee. Dr. Hanna Hartmann (NMI Naturwissenschaftlichen und Medizinischen Institut, Reutlingen) and Prof...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the co-organiser TOPIC 08 "Ceramics for Healthcare", with Prof. Kurosch Rezwan (University of Bremen) (pictured) and Prof. Anne Leriche (University of Valenciennes, France) and co-chaired the respective sessions in the framework of the CERAMICS 2021 conference, the 96th ...

On 15th April 2021, Prof. Veronica I. Dodero, Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry work group (Head: Prof. Sewald), Faculty of Chemistry, Bielefeld University, presented the invited talk: "Supramolecular Medicine: Crossing the gap from fundamental research to biomedical applications" at the Institute of...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, scientific coordinator of the Network of Argentinean Scientists in Germany (RCAA), attended the seminar of the International Academy of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) on 12-13 April 2021. With Dr. Flavio Soldera, University of Saarland, he introduced the activi...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the ACerS (American Ceramic Society)-MRS (Materials Research Society) Bioceramics Virtual Workshop "Potential and Challenges in Bioceramics – From Fundamental Research to Clinical Translation", held on 7-8 April 2021. Prof. Boccaccini prese...

Our review paper entitled "Poly(Glycerol Sebacate) in Biomedical Applications—A Review of the Recent Literature" (authors: Lena Vogt, Florian Ruther, Sahar Salehi (Univ. of Bayreuth) and Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been just published in the journal Adv. Healthcare Materials . In this review (open acces...

On 25th March 2021, Prof. Chiara E. Ghezzi,  Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, presented the invited seminar at the Institute of Biomaterials, entitled: "Advanced systems for corneal tissue engineering". More than 70 members of our Institute and collabora...

On 22-23 March 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani hosted the first (online) partner and "Scientific Focus Groups" (SFG) meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) with participation of the members of the external advisory board. More than 70 participants atte...

Two new studies have been recently published in the context of our research activities in the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1270 ELAINE . Electroconductive hydrogels for Tissue Engineering In a joint effort with the University of Rostock, in this paper (first author: Thomas Distle...