2022

On 13th September 2022, we received the visit of Dr. Betiana Lerner (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (CONICET – UTN), UTN-Haedo ), Argentina, in the framework of our DAAD funded project "Bioactive glass integrated with microfluidic device...

The latest Review Meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) project took place in Riga on 14th September 2022. We are grateful to the European Commission project and policy officers and to the external reviewers for their input for the further development of the BBCE centre. Pro...

Ms Lisa Schöbel, currently PhD student in our Institute, has won the Best Master Thesis Award 2022 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM). Lisa carried out her Master thesis project on optimised and functionalised alginate based hydrogels for Biofabrication, within project B06 of the Collabor...

On 13th September, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered (online) the lecture "Bioactive glasses (as antibacterial materials)" in the framework of the Summer School of the Erasmus Mundus BIOPHAM (BIO & Pharmaceutical Materials Science - EUROPEAN MASTER) organised by Prof. Serena Danti, Dept. of Civ...

Ms. Usanee Pantulap, PhD student in our Institute, participated in the "Young Researchers in Bioglasses and Bioglass Applications" meeting held on 6-7 September 2022 at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. The purpose of the event was to bring together young researchers working on bioactive glasses a...

Our Institute was well represented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB 2022), held on 4-8 September 2022 in Bordeaux, France. Faina Bider, Huijun Zhang, Sonja Kuth, Irem Unalan (PhD students) and Dr. Farnaz Ghorbani presented the results of their projects (pos...

The Annual General Assembly (GA) of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB)  took place in the framework of the ESB 2022 conference in Bordeaux, France, on 7th September. Prof. Boccaccini attended the GA as member of the ESB council. He is currently the vice-president of ESB and serves in the ES...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Korea-Germany R&D Network International Conference on Medical Applications of Microfluidics, held on 1-2 September 2022 in Busan, Korea, and in hybrid format. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk titled: "Advances in 3D Bioprinting: Bioink Developmen...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Ms Lisa Schoebel (PhD student) participated at the 6th Retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) SFB 1270/2 "ELAINE - Electrically Active Implants" held on 29-31 August 2022 at Schloss & Gut Ulrichshusen.  CRC research activities focus on a new family of ele...

Prof. Bruno Henriques, PhD, associated with the Mechanical Engineering Department, the Postgraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, the Postgraduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering, the Postgraduate Program in Dentistry, and the Ceramic & Composite Materials Research Laboratories...