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On 11th July, Prof. Host Fischer, head of the Chair of Dental Prosthetics, Implantology, and Biomaterials, at RWTH Aachen University Hospital, visited our Institute and gave an invited presentation in the framework of the Materials Science Colloquium in Summer Term 2023 of the FAU Department of Mate...

The final meeting of the 3-year research project "Development of electrophoretic co-deposition of bioactive and antibacterial ceramics with biodegradable polymers to produce novel composite coatings for biomedical applications” (EPD BioCoat) took place online on 11th  July 2023. Ms Zoya Hadzhieva (P...

Our Institute was well represented at the XVIII Conference of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS 2023), held on 2-6 July 2023 in Lyon, France. Marcela Arango-Ospina, Zoya Hadzhieva (PhD students) presented the results of their projects (oral presentations). Prof. Boccaccini was the lead co-organise...

Will Nedin and Kurt Foster, PhD students at School of Pharmacy & Bioengineering, Keele University, UK, supervised by Prof. Peter Ogrodnik, visited our Institute on 27th June. We are planning to strengthen the collaboration between our Institute, and our University in general, with the colleagues...

On 26-29 June 2023 PhD students Faina Bider, Zhiyan Xu and Jonas Roeder travelled to Riga, Latvia, to develop the in site training workshop on Advanced Drug Delivery & Drug Targeting as part of your on-going collaboration with the EU funded Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE). The wo...

Mateo Villavicencio and Ezequiel Agliano are the Master students from National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, in the framework of the student exchange I.DEAR program (Ingenieure Deutschland – Argentina) in Materials Science and Engineering. They have started their academic term at F...

The progress meeting of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) (ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL & ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATING PLATFORM)  took place online on 23rd June 2023. Ms Zoya Hadzhieva, Mr Muhammad Asim Akhtar (PhD students) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (principal investigator) attended the meet...

Our Institute is currently hosting four top biomaterials scientists, holders of fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Ass. Prof. Duygu Ege ( Boğaziçi University, Turkey), working on bioactive glass containing fibers for nerve repair, Dr. Sara Pourshahrestani, post-doctoral researcher...

The latest research in progress meeting of the international project “Development and characterization of drug free bioactive glass nanoparticles for biomedical applications” funded by the British Council under the Pakistan-UK Education Gateway scheme took place online on 19th June 2023. There were ...

On 16th February 2023 we welcomed a delegation from Department of Science Service (DSS), Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, including Mrs. Pochaman Tagheen, DSS Deputy director general, Mrs. Orasa Onjun, Director of division of chemical & consumer products, Mr. Kanit Tapasa, ...