International

Prof. Dr. Mohammed J. Kadhim Al-Tameemi of University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, is currently visiting the Institute of Biomaterials. Prof. Kadhim Al-Tameemi is the main supervisor of Ms. lman Adnan Annon Al-Khayyat, PhD student at University of Technology, Baghdad, who is carrying out part of he...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA) which was held on 20th-21th November 2014 at the Argentinean Embassy in Berlin. The meeting was also attended by the Ambassado...

Dr. Magdalena Stevanovic and students from Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Centre for Fine Particles Processing and Nanotechnologie, in Belgrade, visited our Institute in the week 17-23 November. We are currently collaborating with the group of Dr. Stevan...

Dr Jonny Blaker, lecturer at the School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK, visited our Institute on 18-20 November. Dr. Blaker was the first PhD student with Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at Imperial College London, and they pioneered the development of biodegradable polymer foam scaffolds reinf...

Prof. Mirka El Fray, Director of the West Pomeranian Center of Advanced Technologies and Professor at the Polymer Institute, West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) in Szczecin (Poland), visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 16-22 November 2014. In the framework of an ERASMUS lectureship, ...

We are proud to be currently hosting several PhD students from different countries who have chosen our Institute to carry out part of their research activities, including Marina Trevelin (Federal University of Sao Carlos - UFSCar, Brazil), Junidah Lamaming (Universiti Sains Malaysia), Joanna Karbown...

The 4th GLACERCO scientific workshop and the last meetings of the management and scientific boards of the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) project "GLACERCO" was held on 22-23 October 2014 at University of Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France. Anahi Philippart (PhD Student), Elena...

The progress meeting of the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) BioBone project was held in Mons, Belgium, on 20-21 October, 2014. The BioBone network has as main objective the training of young researchers in the strategic area of bioceramics for bone repair. The members of the Institute ...

The progress meeting of the FP7 Europan project "Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents" (ReBioStent) took place in Turin (Italy) on 15-16 October 2014. This project is part of FP7 Theme "Biomaterials for Advanced Therapies and Medical Devices in the neurological/n...

The 5th International conference on EPD was held on 6-10 October 2014 in Schloss Hernstein, Austria. More than 85 participants, including senior researchers from academia and industry as well as students coming from more than 24 counties attended the conference, including 6 Keynote speakers, present...