2023

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini finished his 8 year tenure as member of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). Prof. Boccaccini had been elected member of the ESB Council initially in 2015 for a period of 4 years. He was then reelected for the ESB Council in 2019, having served as ESB ...

Our Institute had a very active participation at the 33rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB 2023),  held on 4-8 September 2023 in Davos, Switzerland. Nineteen members of the Institute (PhD students, post-docs) contributed with posters and oral presentations. Prof. Bocca...

Our Institute contributed with several oral and poster presentations to the success of FEMS EUROMAT 2023 Congress, the largest materials science and technology event in Europe, which was held in Frankfurt, Germany, on 3-7 September 2023. The congress was organised by the German Materials Society (DG...

On 1st September 2023, we received the visit of Dr. Roshan Khadka, scientist at New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, Auckland, New Zealand. We discussed about areas of common research interests, in the fields of biomaterials, in particular natural biopolymers, biosensors, tissue engine...

Many congratulations to Mr Susanta Sengupta for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “Fibrous structures based on biopolymers and biologically active ion doped mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles for tissue engineering applications: development and characterization” on 21st August ...

Many congratulations to Ms Nurshen Mutlu for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “INCORPORATION OF BORATE BIOACTIVE GLASSES INTO SOFT MATRICES FOR SOFT TISSUE APPLICATIONS” on 21st August 2023. Nurshen carried out her doctoral studies under the co-tutelle agreement between our Institut...

Marcela Arango Ospina and Zoya Hadzhieva (PhD students at the Institute of Biomaterials) visited the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Sao Jose dos Campos and the Federal Univerisity of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianopolis, Brazil, from 9.08 until 15.08 in the framework of the CAPES-DAAD -funded ...

On 14th August, Dr. Selvakumar Murugesan, Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India,  presented the lecture "Functional Biomaterials for Medical Applications" at the Institute of Biomaterials. Hosted by Pro...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been designated Representative in Europe of the Argentine Ceramics Technical Association (ATAC).  Prof. Boccaccini said: "It is an honor to have been designated European representative of ATAC. I thank ATAC president Dr. Cristina Volzone and the board of ATAC for the tru...

We are pleased with the acquisition of a new freeze dryer at the Institute of Biomaterials. This device will allow the development of polymer and composite scaffolds using a great variety of solvents to achieve complex 3D structures to improve biological and mechanical performance. Prof. Boccaccini ...