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We congratulate Akrity Anand for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Copper-strontium/magnesium co-doped mesoporous bioactive glass for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications” on 28th November 2024. She carried out her doctoral project under the co-tutelle agreement between...

The Institute of Biomaterials hosted the annual meeting of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) (ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL & ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATING PLATFORM) on 2-3 Dec 2024. Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini welcomed the project consortium in presence in Erlangen. The projec...

The international symposium to celebrate the 15 years of the Institute of Biomaterials took place on 29th November 2024 at in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, FAU, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at FAU. The scientific part of the symposi...

We congratulate Binh (Hana) Phan for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “COMBINATION OF BIORESORBABLE POLYESTERS AND ESSENTIAL OILS AS INNOVATIVE ANTIMICROBIAL COATING BIOMATERIALS” on 29th November 2024. Hana carried out her doctoral project in our Institute supervised by Prof. Aldo ...

On 26th November 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an invited lecture in the framework of the Seminar course of the Master's degree in "Biomaterials and Nano Medicine" at University of Aveiro, Portugal. The host was Prof. José Almeida of CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials. Prof. Boccaccin...

Ms. Hannah Kissel and Ms. Sena Harmancı, PhD students in our institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, visited the Laboratory of Ceramics Processing (ProCer) and the Department of Chemical and Food Engineering (EQA), at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)  in Florianópolis, Brazil, ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a Plenary Speaker at the IV Congress Frontiers in Nanobiotechnology held on 19-21 November 2024 in presence at CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina and online. Prof. Boccaccini attended remotely and presented the talk: "Bioactive glass nanoparticles for tissue engineering, drug...

The meetings of the Board and Management Committee (MC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) took place in the city of Granada, Spain, the city where the 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes conference (EUROMAT 2025)  will be held on 14 – 18 S...

On 11-14 November, Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva and Marcela Arango Ospina (PhD student) attended the Funglass School in Vršatské Podhradie, Slovakia, organized by the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia (FunGlass EU project, 73956...

On 15th November, Prof. Boccaccini and several members of our Institute attended at University Hospital Würzburg the meeting of the Working Group "Bioceramics", a joint activity of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) and the German Society for Materials Science (DGM), currently chaired by Prof. Uwe Gbu...