2025

Congratulations to Mahshid Monavari for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “3D Printing of Alginate-Dialdehyde-Gelatine (ADA-GEL) Composites Incorporating with Therapeutic Agents and Bioactive Glass for Sustained Drug Delivery in Regenerative Medicine” on 26th March 2025. She carried ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a keynote speaker at the Industry Colloquium of the DFG Research Unit "Mechanism-based characterization and modeling of permanent and bioresorbable implants with tailored functionality based on innovative in vivo, in vitro and in silico methods"  (FOR 5250), which was he...

The first meeting in 2025 of the Board of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) took place online on 18th March, chaired by FEMS president Prof. Aldo R Boccaccini. The meeting was attended by Board members representing FEMS member societies from 10 different EU countries. A report wa...

The 2025 Spring meeting of the DGM Regionalforum Erlangen was held on 17th March 2025 in the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering (WW) with the topic "Energy Materials". The program included an introduction to the DGM Regionalforum Erlangen by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Chair of DGM Re...

On 13th March, Assoc. Prof. Dana Rohanová from the Department of Glass and Ceramics at the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) Prague, Czech Republic, presented the invited lecture " Testing bioreactivity of biomaterials" at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccacc...

Vising professors, post-docs, PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Spring and Summer of 2025. We are hosting researchers from 13 (!) different countries, who are working on numerous biomaterial related projects on...

At the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN), held on 26th February 2025 in presence in Brussels and online, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was reelected coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof. C. Hellmi...

The First Retreat 2025 of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” was held on 24-26 February 2025 in Kloster Banz, Bavaria, Germany. Hsuan-Heng Lu, Jonas Roeder (PhD students, working on projects B03 and A01, respective...

The first research in progress meeting of the Research Unit “Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue” (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue) in 2025 was organised by Dr. Irem Unalan and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Institute of Biomaterials, FAU. It took place on 25th February with participation of all members of the Resea...

The retreat of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (WW Department) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg took place on 20-21 February 2025 in Weisendorf (Bavaria). Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting representing the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, the Chair VII (WW7) of the WW De...