International

  We met for "coffee and cakes" to welcome the new group of visiting researchers and students who have arrived in Erlangen to spend research internships and study stays in our Institute, including Dr. Agustina Aldana, INTEMA Mar del Plata, Argentina, Cintia Perez, University of Mar del Plata, Arg...

  We welcome Exequiel Gutierrez and Cintia Perez, students from National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, who will spend the next 2 academic terms in Germany in the framework of the exchange program in materials science and engineering I.DEAR (Ingenieure Deutschland-Argentinien), funded by...

  Our Institute was strongly represented at the 28th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB), held in Athens, Greece, on 4 - 8 September 2017, chaired by Prof. Maria Chatzinikolaidou, University of Crete. Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the International Advisory Committ...

  Prof. Boccaccini attended the First International Conference on Advances in Biomaterials and Applications (BIOMAAP), held in Croydon, London, UK, on 31 August - 1 September, 2017. Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the International Advisory Committee of the conference, he chaired one of the scie...

  On 2nd August 2017 we received the visit of Prof. Silvia Simison, affiliated with the National Institute for Science and Technology of Materials (INTEMA), at National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, and of Dr. Flavio Soldera, Chair of Functional Materials, Saarland University. Prof. Boc...

  On 24-26 July 2017 Prof. Boccaccini visited the Department of Life Sciences at University of Westminster, London, UK, where he met Prof. Ipsita Roy and (part of) her team. We have been collaborating with Prof. Roy's research group for more than 10 years in the field of biopolymer-inorganic...

Prof. Go Kawamura, Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, TUT, Japan, is currently academic visitor in the Institute of Biomaterials. This research program with TUT is funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and i...

Several students and researchers have chosen our Institute to carry out research during the next months. We welcome Ms M. Laura Dittler, visiting PhD student from Nat. University of La Plata, Argentina, Francesca Serio, visiting PhD Student, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, Dr. Go Kawamura, vis...

On 18-20 July 2017 we received the visit of Prof. Susmita Bose and Prof. Amit Bandyopadhyay of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, W. M. Keck Biomedical Materials Research Lab Washington State University, Pullman, USA. Prof. Susmita Bose presented the invited lecture: "3D printing ...

During July-August 2017 we are hosting researchers from the School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, in the framework of the DAAD/CSC funded project in the field of nanostructured bioactive coatings for orthopedic applications. Ms Hongfei Qi (PhD student) and P...