2024

On 15th January, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered an invited lecture at Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Engineering and Design, to Bomedical Engineering Master students and researchers of the Chair of Medical Materials and Implants (MMI), (Head: Prof. Dr. Petra Mela). Prof. Boccaccin...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, has been selected as the winner of the George Winter Award 2024 of the European Society for Biomaterials. The George Winter Award was established by the ESB to recognize, encourage and stimulate outstanding research contributions t...

The FEMS Winter Newsletter 2024 has been published and it is available in the FEMS webpage. In his message to the members of the FEMS affiliated societies, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FEMS President 2024/25) wrote: "It has been an honour to serve as FEMS President this year. I am especially grateful t...

We thank all Institute’s members, staff, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, students, visiting scientists, collaborators and supporters for the great commitment, hard work and continuous support this year, in which we achieved many goals together! Wishing everyone Happy Holidays, Merry Christm...

Several of our papers have been included in the bibliometric study of the 100 most cited papers about bioactive glasses for bone tissue engineering, by Prof. Marco Bottino (University of Michigan, USA) and co-authors, published in the journal Odontology . Prof. Boccaccini said: "it is interesting to...

On 9-13 December 2024 we received the visit of Prof. Gustavo Abraham, Head of the Biomedical Polymers Division at National Institute for Materials Research (INTEMA), National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP),  Argentina. We have established a fruitful collaboration with Prof. Abraham in the frame...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting of the Advisory Board (AB) of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (“Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina”) representing the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). The meeting was held on 13th December in Erlang...

The End-of-Year Meeting and Christmas Dinner of the Institute of Biomaterials were held on 10th December 2024. Permanent staff, PhD students, post-docs, undergraduate students, academic visitors and guests attended the event. Prof. Boccaccini gave a presentation summarizing the main achievements and...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting of Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania), RCAA, held at the EEmbassy of Argentina in Berlin and in hybrid form on 5-6 December 2024. Prof. Boccaccini is the Scientific Coordinator Emeritus of RCAA...

We congratulate Akrity Anand for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Copper-strontium/magnesium co-doped mesoporous bioactive glass for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications” on 28th November 2024. She carried out her doctoral project under the co-tutelle agreement between...