2022

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 2nd International Conference on “Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine”, which was held in hybrid format on 15-17th March, 2022. The conference was organised by our Institute's alumnus Dr. Ing. Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman, curre...

Dr. Rainer Detsch, Ms Susanne Heid (PhD student) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the progress meeting of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” held in hybrid form on 15-17 March 2022 in Kloster Banz, Germany. Th...

On 7-12 March 2022 we received the visit of Prof. Gustavo Abraham, Head of the Biomedical Polymers Division at National Institute for Materials Research (INTEMA), National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina. The visit took place in the framework of the IDEAR program funded by the German-...

Usanee Pantulap, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials (supervisor: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) won the second prize of the best poster/video competition at the Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) Ceramics 2022, which was held online on 7-9 March 2022. Usanee presented a poster a...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the co-organiser TOPIC 06 “Ceramics for Healthcare”, with Prof. Dusan Galusek (Univ. of Trencin, Slokakia), and co-chaired the respective sessions in the framework of the CERAMICS 2022 conference http://www.2021.dkg.de/info/home/en, the 97th Annual Meeting of the German ...

The "Research in Progress" meeting of the ITN-EJD network PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR (P4FIT)  (EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020) took place online on 25th Feb. 2022. All early career researchers (ESRs) members of the network participated and presented the latest results achieved. ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the online meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held on 24th February 2022. Prof. Boccaccini serves in the ESB Council as ESB vice-president and as officer (liaison) for the ESB Young Scientists Forum (YSF) . The next important ESB e...

At the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN), held online on 22nd February 2022 in Brussels, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was reelected coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof. C. Hellmich, Technical Un...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), chaired by FEMS president Prof. Anna Zervaki, which took place online on 23rd February 2022.  Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials Society...

2022 has been declared the Year of Glass by the United Nations, with the goal to increase awareness of the importance of glass in numerous fields, such as industrial, economic, cultural and in scientific research. Several activities are planed in Erlangen to celebrate the UN Year of Glass, wit...