2023

Following the Partners progress meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) on 8-9 June 2023, with participation of Ms Zoya Hadzhieva, Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini representing our Institute, the meeting of the BBCE Steering Commitee took place, chaired by...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Board of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS),  chaired by FEMS president Prof. Anna Zervaki, which took place online on 6th June 2023. Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials Society (DGM) in FEMS Board sin...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was a co-chair of the "3rd International Conference on Alkali Activated Materials and Geopolymers: Sustainable Construction Materials and Ceramics Made Under Ambient Conditions", held on May 28 – June 2, 2023  in Cetraro (Calabria, Italy), organised in the framework of t...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2023 held in Strasbourg, France, on May 29 to June 2, 2023. Professor Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses as multifunctional biomaterials for tissue engineering, drug delivery and biofabrication" in symposium H "Advanc...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Irem Unalan, Dr. Qaisar Nawaz and Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina (PhD student) attended a series of events at the FunGlass – Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia (FunGlass EU project, 739566). They participat...

On 22nd May  we received the visit of Assoc. Professor Mohd Muzamir Mahat, Head of Research Communications & Visibility Management, Office Deputy of Vice-Chancellor (Research &  Innovation), Faculty of Applied Sciences, University Technology MARA, (UiTM) Malaysia. He presented the lecture: "...

On 15-17 May 2023 we received the visit of Dr. Agata Sotniczuk from Warsaw University of Technology, Division of Materials Design, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw, Poland. We are expanding our collaboration with Dr. Sotniczuk in the field of electrophoretic coatings for biomedic...

On 15-16 May 2023, our Institute hosted the Workshop “Functionalized scaffolds for tissue engineering applications” in the framework of our training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE), in Riga, Latvia, EU-funded project (Horizon 2020, grant agreem...

Following an invitation from Assist. Prof. Kai Zheng (former PhD student in our Institute)and the organizing team at School of Stomatology of Nanjing Medical University, Professor Boccaccini presented on 13th May 2023 the plenary lecture: "Applications of bioactive glasses in tissue engineering and ...

In the week 8-12 May 2023 we received the visit of Dr. Anamarija Rogina and Dr. Leonard Bauer from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia. We are collaborating with the research group of Dr. Rogina in the framework of the DAAD funded project "Bioactive comp...