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Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented a keynote lecture at the “4th Conference on Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare” (BioMaH), which is taking place at the Italian National Research Council Headquarters in Rome, Italy (15-18 October 2024). Prof. Boccaccini is one of the presidents of t...

We are hosting several researchers from FunGlass – Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Trencin, Slovakia, including Dr. Hana Kaňková (senior researcher) and Ph.D. students Mina Abdolmaleki and Nariman Alipanah. We collaborate with Dr. Kaňková specially in the characterisation of ...

On 9th October, we received the visit of Prof. Lina Gölz, director of the FAU Dental Clinic-3, Orthodontics and her co-worker Ms Gabriele Rodrian, who also toured our laboratories together with Ms. Marcela Arango-Ospina (Ph.D. student in our Institute). We have identified interesting areas for colla...

Dr. Rainer Detsch, Ms. Hsuan-Heng Lu (PhD student) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting 2024 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM), which was held on 10-12 October 2024 in Berlin. Dr. Detsch and Ms. Lu presented posters related to our work on bioinks in the framework of t...

The Else Kröner Fresenius Symposium on Nanomedicine: From bench to bedside was held in Erlangen on 7-9 October 2024 to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine, Else Kroener-Fresenius-Endowed professorship, at University Hospital Erlangen, led by Prof. ...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini is listed as one of the highly cited researchers in the world according to the latest edition of the Stanford List of Highly Cited Researchers  published recently (16.9.2024). Prof. Boccaccini appears in the top 50 list in the subject “Materials” (18) and "Enabling &...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini will serve as Associate Editor of the journal Bioactive Materials (IF = 18.0). Prof. Boccaccini had served as a member of the editorial board of the journal since the establishment of the journal in 2016. "Bioactive Materials" is an international, peer-reviewed journal that ...

On 27 September 2024 we received the visit of Prof. Dachamir Hotza, from the Chemical Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Prof. Hotza is coordinator from the Brazilian side of our collaborative project “Ph.D. with Double Degree UFSC-FAU”, which is funded by the Resea...

Our Institute had an active participation and contribution to the success of the Materials Science and Engineering MSE Congress (MSE 2024)  held in Darmstadt, Germany, and in hybrid format on 24-26 September 2024, a conference organised by the  DGM (German Society of Materials Science). Prof. Boccac...

We congratulate Zoya Hadzhieva for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of advanced bioactive and antibacterial zein-based coatings on titanium for biomedical applications“ on 20th September 2024. Zoya carried out her doctoral project in our Institute s...