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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, ...

Following the invitation of Dr. Cristina Volzone, President of ATAC (Asociación Técnica Argentina de Cerámica), on 15th June Prof. Boccaccini presented (remotely) the lecture "Bioactive glasses: multifunctional and versatile materials for the advances of regenerative medicine". The presentation was ...

Following the Partners progress meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) on 8-9 June 2023, with participation of Ms Zoya Hadzhieva, Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini representing our Institute, the meeting of the BBCE Steering Commitee took place, chaired by...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Board of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS),  chaired by FEMS president Prof. Anna Zervaki, which took place online on 6th June 2023. Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials Society (DGM) in FEMS Board sin...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was a co-chair of the "3rd International Conference on Alkali Activated Materials and Geopolymers: Sustainable Construction Materials and Ceramics Made Under Ambient Conditions", held on May 28 – June 2, 2023  in Cetraro (Calabria, Italy), organised in the framework of t...

Iouliana Chrysafi (PhD, Chemistry Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) visited the Institute of Biomaterials from 31.05 until 07.06.2023 in the framework of the Greek-German collaboration project funded by IKY-DAAD. As participants of the German research group, Prof. Aldo Bocc...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2023 held in Strasbourg, France, on May 29 to June 2, 2023. Professor Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses as multifunctional biomaterials for tissue engineering, drug delivery and biofabrication" in symposium H "Advanc...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Irem Unalan, Dr. Qaisar Nawaz and Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina (PhD student) attended a series of events at the FunGlass – Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia (FunGlass EU project, 739566). They participat...

Zoya Hadzhieva and Faina Bider (PhD students at the Institute of Biomaterials) visited the Chemistry and Dentistry Departments of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, from 17.05 until 26.05.2023 in the framework of IKY-DAAD Project on bioactive polymer-bioceramic scaffolds (FAU Principal In...

On 22nd May  we received the visit of Assoc. Professor Mohd Muzamir Mahat, Head of Research Communications & Visibility Management, Office Deputy of Vice-Chancellor (Research &  Innovation), Faculty of Applied Sciences, University Technology MARA, (UiTM) Malaysia. He presented the lecture: "...