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The progress meeting (M36) of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) (ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL & ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATING PLATFORM) took place on 9-10th December 2025. Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting in person in Vagos, Aveiro (Portugal) and online, respec...

The End-of-Year Meeting and Christmas Dinner of the Institute of Biomaterials were held on 11 December 2025. Permanent staff, PhD students, postdocs, undergraduate students, academic visitors, and guests attended the event. Prof. Boccaccini gave a presentation summarizing the main achievements and a...

Congratulations to Andrada-Ioana Damian-Buda, PhD student in our Institute, on being one of the winners of the 2025 Student Speech Contest of the Bioceramics Network (LINK: https://bioceramics.ecers.org/en/bi/home) of the EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, (LINK: https://ecers.org/en/ec/home ) held online la...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the 7th Scientific Symposium and Annual Meeting of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania), RCAA, held at the Embassy of Argentina in Berlin and in hybrid form on 4-5 December 2025. Prof. Boccaccini is the Scienti...

This year, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini marks 35 years of continuous membership of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM),  one of the largest technical societies for materials science and materials engineering in Europe. Prof. Boccaccini said: “I am proud of my continuous membership of DGM for ...

Congratulations to Lukas Königer on successfully defending his doctoral thesis on 2nd December 2025. Lukas carried out his doctoral project at Translational Center Regenerative Therapies (Fraunhofer TLC-RT) of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC, Würzburg, supervised by Prof. Jan Hans...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 1st International Online Conference on Gels (IOCG 2025), held on 3-5 December 2025. He presented the Plenary talk: "Design and Characterization of Nanoparticle and Ion Loaded Hydrogels for Biofabrication" in the session "Gels in electro-magneto-...

We congratulate Andrada-Ioana Damian-Buda, PhD student in our Institute, on winning the Master Thesis Lecture Competition organized by the German Society for Materials Science (DGM) (LINK: https://dgm.de/de/home ) as part of the FEMS - Federation of European Materials Societies (LINK: https://fems.o...

On 27th November 2025, our Institute hosted the "Advances in Biomaterials 2025" Seminar featuring two invited, international speakers: Prof. Jean-Philippe St-Pierre (University of Ottawa, Canada, currently visiting the FAU Department of Biology), and Prof. Ana Paula Immich Boemo (Federal University ...

The meetings of the Management Committee (MC) and the Board of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) were held in hybrid format at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and online on 24–25 November 2025. These were very fruitful and effective meetings in which details of the upcoming ...