2024

On 11-14 November, Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva and Marcela Arango Ospina (PhD student) attended the Funglass School in Vršatské Podhradie, Slovakia, organized by the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia (FunGlass EU project, 73956...

On 15th November, Prof. Boccaccini and several members of our Institute attended at University Hospital Würzburg the meeting of the Working Group "Bioceramics", a joint activity of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) and the German Society for Materials Science (DGM), currently chaired by Prof. Uwe Gbu...

-6 November 2024, our Institute hosted the Workshop “Advanced drug delivery and drug targeting” 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 agreement No 857287). The ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Final Meeting of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project P4FiT (“PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR”), held in Helsinki, Finland on 6-8 November 2024. In this meeting, all Early Stage Researchers (Ph.D. students) presented a summary of their proj...

Our Institute is currently hosting two top biomaterial scientists, holders of fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Prof. Papia Haque, from the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, working on hydrogels containing mesoporous bioact...

Invited by Prof. Michael G. Monaghan, Director of Research, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Prof. Boccaccini visited TCD on 29-31 October 2024. He delivered the lecture "Bioactive glasses: From bone tissue engineering to biofabrication and ionic medicine" and visited the laborat...

On 23rd October we received the visit of Prof. Claudia Fleck from the Institute of Materials Science, TU Berlin. Prof. Fleck and Prof. Boccaccini are principal investigators in the DFG  funded Research Unit FOR 5657 (BIOAntiFatigue). In this project, members of our Institute (Dr. Irem Unalan, Prof. ...

The Workshop "Reliability of Implants and Biostructures" of the "German Society for Materials Research and Testing (Deutsche Verband für Materialforschung und –prüfung (DVM)" took place on 23-24 October 2024 in Erlangen, co-organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Prof. Ulrich Lohbauer  (University Ho...

Dr. Leonard Bauer from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, visited the Institute of Biomaterials in October 2024. During his stay Dr. Bauer, together with Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva (Post-Doc) and Meng Li (Ph.D. student), worked on the DAAD-funded project “Bioa...

Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva, Marcela Arango Ospina and Prof. Aldo Boccaccini successfully organized the annual BBCE (Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence) summer school on scientific writing at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials in Erlangen on 14-18 October 2024. The event was attended by early career res...