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During the visit of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva to the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), an important meeting with members of the FunGlass Department of Biomaterials, led by Dr. Martin  Michálek, was organized on 19th February 2025 with the partic...

The Review Meeting of the FunGlass  H2020 EU Teaming project (grant agreement Nº739566) was held at University of Trencin, Slovakia, on 17-19th February 2025, chaired by the director of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Prof. Dušan Galusek. The meeting was attend...

On 14th February we received the visit of Associate Professor Egemen Avcu, Prof. Rıdvan Yamanoğlu and Prof. Abdulkadir Cengiz from the Department of Machine and Metal Technologies, Kocaeli University, Turkey. We had collaborated previously with Prof. Avcu on electrophoretic deposition of bioactive c...

Co-organised by Dr. Martin Michálek  (Head of Biomaterials Department, FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the 2nd Biomaterials Research Day of the Department of Biomaterials at FunGlass Center was held on 12th February 2025 in hybrid form. This scientific symposium inc...

Our alumnus Dr. Kai Zheng, associate professor at Engineering Research Center of Stomatological Translational Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, China, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 7th February, together with colleagues from the Stomatological Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, a...

On 3-4 February 2025 we received the visit of Ass. Prof. Francesco Baino from Institute of Materials Physics and Engineering, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Prof. Baino is an expert in the field of scaffolds for bone tissue engineering and bioactive glasse...

The General Assembly and Update Meeting of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1540) "Exploring Brain Mechanics"  was held on 31st January 2025 in Erlangen. Prof. Boccaccini presented a summary of the progress in research project "X03: Engineering brain tissue-like matrices", of which ...

Many international researchers, including guest professors, post-docs, visiting PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Winter term 2024/25. We are hosting guests from 14 (!) different countries, who are working on n...

The kick-off meeting of the project "Engineering Vascularized Implants for Personalised Osteochondral Tissue Regeneration: From medical imaging to pre-clinical validation", EngVIPO, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01-01, ID: 101183041), took plac...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia. The award was conferred at the ceremony of the Grand Opening of the new building of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE) in Riga, Latvia, on 20th January 2025. Prof. Boccacc...