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Dr. Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman, who graduated with the Dr.-Ing. degree from our Institute in 2018, is visiting us in August. We are currently collaborating with Dr. Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman in the framework of a British Council funded project, involving also Prof. Ipsita Roy, University of Sheffield, UK...

We congratulate Bernhard Friedrich for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “Peptide-functionalized SPIONs for the removal of pathogens” on 29th July 2022. He carried out his doctoral project at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SE...

The end of the summer term 2022 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials, which took place on 27th July 2022. This was the first general in-presence meeting of the whole Institute in the last three years. Most members of the Institute attended. In his speech Prof. Bo...

We were happy to host 11th grade students from Latvia on 26th - 29th July in the framework of our collaboration with the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE). They were the winners of the BIO-GO-Higher competition which was organised for last year high school students from Latvia with the...

Many international researchers, collaborators, PhD students and undergraduate visiting (Erasmus) students have selected our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Summer of 2022. They are working on a wide range of biomaterial topics, which include tissue engineering scaffolds by ...

The 4th Review Meeting of the Centre for Functional and Surface-functionalised Glasses (FunGlass) EU funded project under the H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 scheme, took place on 27th July 2022 online. The meeting was hosted by Prof. Dušan Galusek, director of the FunGlass Center, with ...

The kick-off meeting of our new DFG funded 3-year project "Osteogenic and angiogenic potential of mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles doped with molybdenum and boron" took place online on 25th July. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Fabian Westhauser and his team at Center of Orthopedic...

On 21-22 July 2022 we received the visit of Prof. Antonio Salinas, affiliated with the Vallet Regi Group at the Department of Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sciences of Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. We discussed research collaboration with Prof. Salinas in the field of ion doped bioactive gl...

Akrity Anand received the Young researchers‘ BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD, topic: “Gels Porous Materials”, at FEMS Junior Euromat 2022 conference in Coimbra, Portugal (19-22 July, 2022). Akrity is a PhD student of the University of Trencin, FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia, supervised by Prof. D...

Members of our Institute participated at the Junior Euromat 2022 conference held in Coimbra, Portugal, on 19-22 July 2022. The Junior Euromat conference series is a conference of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), which is organised every two years in different European countries...