International

On 19-20 September 2018 Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials, and Chair, FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering), hosted a delegation of engineering students from Argentina, with sponsorship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Sixteen students of m...

Prof. dr. ir. Annabel Braem from KU Leuven, Department of Materials Engineering, Belgium, is visiting our Institute. We are collaborating with Prof. Braem in the field of alternating current electrophoretic deposition (AC-EPD) of biomolecules. Specifically Prof. Braem is developing a design of exper...

Ms Marcela Arango Ospina, currently PhD student in our Institute, who graduated from the FAU Elite Master program Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP), has won the Society of Glass Technology (UK) Oldfield Award 2018 (1st prize) for her Master thesis: "Design and development of Ag-doped mesoporous...

The special symposium "Drug-free antibacterial hybrid biopolymers for medical applications" (LINK: https://hymedpoly.eu/2018/05/18/hymedpoly-presents-special-symposium-at-esb2018/ ) of the EU ETN Network HyMedPoly ("Drug-Free Antibacterial Hybrid Biopolymers for Medical Applications") (LINK: https:/...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a keynote speaker in two special symposia at the 29th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB), held in Maastricht, Netherlands, on 9 - 13 September 2018. He presented the keynote entitled "Bioactive glass nanoparticles with enhanced functionaliti...

Our Institute had a large representation and visibility at the 29th Annual Conference of the _European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) , held in Maastricht, Netherlands, on 9 - 13 September 2018, chaired by Prof. Pamela Habibovic, University of Maastricht. Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the Interna...

Prof. Boccaccini coordinated the symposium "Electrophoretic Deposition of Functional Coatings: from Materials Science to Biotechnology", which was organised in the framework of the 69th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE 2018), held in Bologna, Italy, on 2-7 Septemb...

Prof. Boccaccini was interviewed by the local newspaper in San Rafael, Argentina, where he highlighted the I.DEAR student exchange program between Argentina and Germany of which the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering is a partner in collaboration with National University of Mar del ...

Am 27. August 2018 besuchte Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini das CONICET Laboratory of Integration of Cellular Signals am Institut für Histologie und Embryologie der medizinischen Fakultät an der National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO) in Mendoza, Argentinien, geleitet von Dr. Diego Bustos. Wir arbeiten m...

Prof. Boccaccini visited the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Industry (FCAI), National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Rafael, Argentina, where he met Ms Silvia Clavijo and Dr. Maria Jose Santillan (UNCUYO). Ms Clavijo is carrying out her doctoral thesis in the field of electrophoretic deposition ...