2022

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head, Institute of Biomaterials at FAU, will receive an honorary doctorate from Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Prof. Boccaccini is conferred the title of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in recognition of his successful research in biomaterials and his collaboration w...

Prof. Boccaccini will be an invited, keynote or plenary speaker at several conferences in 2022. He will present an invited talk about bioactive glasses in tissue engineering at the II Workshop for Young Researchers in Ceramics and Glasses for Medical Applications  Y-CGMED in Madrid, Spain. He will b...

In the week 31.01. to 04.02.2022 we received the visit of Dr. Agnieszka Piegat, assistant professor at the Department of Polymer and Biomaterials Science and Nanotechnology Centre, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland. She visited our institute as an Erasmus lecturer and deliv...

On 31st January 2022, Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the "International Symposium on Emerging Materials for Biomedical Engineering (EMB 2022)", 30-31 Jan. 2022, IIITDM Jabalpur, India, featuring many other distinguished speakers. The symposium was jointly organized by Mechanical Engineer...

On 26th January, Prof. Boccaccini delivered the invited lecture "Bioactive Composite Materials and Biofabrication Approaches for Tissue Engineering" in the framework of the lunch time seminars at School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Keele University, UK. The seminar was hosted by Dr. Gianpiero Di ...

On 18th January, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass). The FAU Institute of Biomaterials is one of the four international partners of FunGlass Center and Prof. Boccaccini advices spe...

Prof. Bastian E. Rapp, The Laboratory of Process Technology, NeptunLab, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, was the invited speaker on 18th January 2022 in the framework of the Materials Science Colloquium 21/22 hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Prof. Rapp presented the talk: "T...

Our Open Access review paper "Gallium containing bioactive materials: A review of anticancer, antibacterial, and osteogenic properties" (authors: Fatih Kurtuldu, Nurshen Mutlu, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dušan Galusek) in Bioactive Materials (IF: 14.593) is available online. This review was written in the ...

Our review paper "Bioactive glasses incorporating less-common ions to improve biological and physical properties" (authors: Usanee Pantulap, Marcela Arango-Ospina & Aldo R. Boccaccini) /1/, has been published (open access) in J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Medicine. This is a comprehensive review coverin...