International

The 6th International Workshop on Advanced Ceramics (IWAC-06) was held in Erlangen on 28-30 September. The symposium was chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and co-chaired by Prof. Peter Greil (Institute of Glass and Ceramics). This series of international workshops, which started in 2004, brings t...

Our Institute had a strong participation at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held in Liverpool on 31st August-3rd September 2014. Professor Boccaccini was a member of the International Advisory Committee of the conference and he chaired two sessions dedicated...

Ms Pooja Basnett (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) completed successfully her PhD project at the University of Westminster, London, UK, under supervision of Dr. Ipsita Roy (Head of Applied Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular and Applied Biosciences, University of Westminster) and wi...

On 29th August Prof. A. R. Boccaccini met in London Dr. P. Jackson (Lucideon), Dr. K. Atkinson (University of Cambridge), Dr Pooja Bassnet (University of Westminster) and Dr. M. Cresswell (Lucideon), who are research partners in the EU FP7 Project "Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeut...

On 4th August Prof. Jie Wei of the Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of the Ministry of Education and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, visited our Institute and presented the talk: "Bioactive biomaterials for bone...

Prof. Dr. Neven Zarkovic of the "Rudjer Boskovic Institute" in Zagreb (Croatia) visited our Institute this week in the framework of our DAAD funded collaborative project "Cu-Bioglass in bone regeneration strategies". The collaboration with Prof. Zarkovic and his team at the Laboratory of Oxidative S...

Dr Adel Francis, senior researcher at Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute (CMRDI), Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, is currently visiting our Institute with funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We are collaborating with Dr Francis in the field of bioactive coatings on Mg all...

Professor Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the Workshop: "Materials for Health: a Value Chain in the Frame of H2020" held on 16-17 July 2014 at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. He presented the lecture: "Composite materials for multifunctional tissue engineering scaffolds". The workshop was...

Prof. Dr. Serena Best, co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials (CCMM) and academic member of the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, visited our Institute on 1st July. She was the invited speaker at the 12th Scientific Seminar ...