International

The Scientific event "Functionalized scaffolds for tissue engineering applications" was organised by Dr. Liliana Liverani and Prof. Also R. Boccaccini on 28-29 October 2021. This event was organised in the framework of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE)  and included 4x scientific p...

On 25-27 October 2021 we received the visit of Dr Agnese Brangule, Research group leader, Assistant professor, Riga Stradins University, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Riga, Latvia. The visit was performed in the framework of our collaboracion with the partners in the Baltic Biomaterials Ce...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the ACerS (American Ceramic Society)-MRS (Materials Research Society) Bioceramics Virtual Workshop "Potential and Challenges in Bioceramics – From Fundamental Research to Clinical Translation", held on 7-8 April 2021. Prof. Boccaccini prese...

On 26th Feb. 2021, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an online lecture in the framework of the "Materials Science" Seminar series of the Jacobs School of Engineering of University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He was introduced by Prof. Olivia Graeve, Department of  Mechanical and Aerospace ...

On 26th July, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an invited lecture in the framework of the Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures series at the Cambridge Graphene Centre, the Research Centre on Graphene, Layered Crystals and Hybrid Nanomaterials directed by Prof. Andrea C. Ferrari at University ...

In the framework of the academic exchange program "Synergistic effects of bioactive implanted materials, trace elements and small molecules promoting bone regeneration and osseointegration under osteoporotic conditions" with the Engineering Research Center for Biomedical Materials of Ministry of Edu...

In the framework of the DAAD PPP Greece project (project title: "Biodegradable osteoinductive scaffolds based on new functionalized polyesters, calcium silicate bioceramics and mesoporous nanocarriers, for bone tissue engineering"), in collaboration with the School of Dentistry, Department of Physic...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the lecture "The behaviour of cells on a composite scaffold" in the session "Bone scaffolding and drugs" at the 1st Seminar and Meeting "Cells and Extracellular Templates (CET)", held at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, on 20-22 June 2019. Prof. Boccaccini was a member...

On 25th June 2019, we received the visit of Prof. Thomas Fiedler, School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Australia. We collaborate with the group of Prof. Fiedler in the field of bioactive glass scaffolds for bone tissue engineering: 3D scaffolds fabricated in Erlangen are characterised...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, head of the Institute of Biomaterials, was elevated to Fellow of the European Ceramic Society and received the fellowship certificate at the XVI Conference of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) held in Turin, Italy, on 17-20 June 2019. ECERS fellows are persons of good re...