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The classical “coffee and cakes” Spring meeting of PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and international visitors of the Institute of Biomaterials took place on 6th April. Even if some Institute's members missed this nice social get-together, most group members attended, and fifteen (!) national...

On 31st March, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Rainer Detsch visited the University Hospital Erlangen, especifically Prof. Dr. med. Mario Perl, Head of the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery and Prof. Dr. med. Marcel Betsch, Head of Orthopedics. We are planing new collaborations in the fi...

We are proud to report that a new Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope with an integrated incubator was acquired and installed at the FAU Institute Biomaterials through a DFG large-scale equipment grant. This microscope was applied in collaboration with the research groups of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini,...

The 1st Technology Event "Materials for Health" of the EUMAT (European technological platform) was held in Brussels and online on 27th March, coordinated by Dr. Amaya Igartua (Tekniker, Spain) and Prof. Silvia Spriano (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy).  Prof. Boccaccini was invited to attend and he pres...

Congratulations to Mahshid Monavari for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “3D Printing of Alginate-Dialdehyde-Gelatine (ADA-GEL) Composites Incorporating with Therapeutic Agents and Bioactive Glass for Sustained Drug Delivery in Regenerative Medicine” on 26th March 2025. She carried ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a keynote speaker at the Industry Colloquium of the DFG Research Unit "Mechanism-based characterization and modeling of permanent and bioresorbable implants with tailored functionality based on innovative in vivo, in vitro and in silico methods"  (FOR 5250), which was he...

The first meeting in 2025 of the Board of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) took place online on 18th March, chaired by FEMS president Prof. Aldo R Boccaccini. The meeting was attended by Board members representing FEMS member societies from 10 different EU countries. A report wa...

The 2025 Spring meeting of the DGM Regionalforum Erlangen was held on 17th March 2025 in the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering (WW) with the topic "Energy Materials". The program included an introduction to the DGM Regionalforum Erlangen by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Chair of DGM Re...

On 13th March, Assoc. Prof. Dana Rohanová from the Department of Glass and Ceramics at the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) Prague, Czech Republic, presented the invited lecture " Testing bioreactivity of biomaterials" at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccacc...

Vising professors, post-docs, PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Spring and Summer of 2025. We are hosting researchers from 13 (!) different countries, who are working on numerous biomaterial related projects on...