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Co-organised by Dr. Martin Michálek  (Head of Department, FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the 1st Biomaterials Research Day of the Department of Biomaterials at FunGlass Center was held on 24th November 2023 in hybrid form. This was a scientific symposium with presen...

On 23rd November 2023, Dr. Karolina Cysewska, Assistant Professor at Functional Materials Engineering Department, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, presented the invited talk: "Conducting polymers in medical applications - research activity of Functional Materials Engineering Department, Gdan...

On 22nd November, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Free Webinar Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD): From Fundamentals to Applications hosted by the journal Nanomaterials and chaired by Dr Fabien Grasset. Prof. Begoña Ferrari (ICV, Spain) was also a speaker at the webinar. Prof. B...

Zoya Hadzhieva, Marcela Arango Ospina and Prof. Aldo Boccaccini successfully organized the annual BBCE (Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence) summer school on scientific writing which took place at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials in Erlangen on 13-17 November 2023. This event was directed to e...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, member of the Advisory Board (AB) of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (“Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina”) representing the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), attended the last meeting of the AB on 16th November in Erlangen....

On 13-18 Nov. 2023 we received the visit of Prof. Gilmar Patrocinio Thim, from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in in the framework of the CAPES/DAAD PROBRAL bilateral project entitled “Advanced Manufacturing of Multifunctional Scaffolds: Synthesis, Processing, and Biolog...

We welcome Mr Ertugrul Varlik, PhD student at the Department of Biomaterials of FunGlass Centre, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia, co-supervised by Dr. Ing. Martin Michálek (FunGlass) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU), for his long stay research internship in our Institute. Ertugrul...

The Innovation Workshop of the EU ITN P4FiT PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR (EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020) took place on 12-13 November 2023 in Amsterdam. The Workshop discussed innovations in the field of tendon repair strategies based on results achieved by the PhD students membe...

On 14th November 2023, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the online meeting of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS). The network is coordinated by Prof. Paola Palmero from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Prof. Boccaccini is a founding member of the Network. The B...

The Germany chapter of the European Materials Day, organised by the German Materials Society (DGM), took place on 10th Nov. 2023, under the auspices of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Markus Lorke, currently PhD student in our Institute, won one of the awards for his presentat...