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Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the online meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held on 24th February 2022. Prof. Boccaccini serves in the ESB Council as ESB vice-president and as officer (liaison) for the ESB Young Scientists Forum (YSF) . The next important ESB e...

At the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN), held online on 22nd February 2022 in Brussels, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was reelected coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof. C. Hellmich, Technical Un...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), chaired by FEMS president Prof. Anna Zervaki, which took place online on 23rd February 2022.  Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials Society...

2022 has been declared the Year of Glass by the United Nations, with the goal to increase awareness of the importance of glass in numerous fields, such as industrial, economic, cultural and in scientific research. Several activities are planed in Erlangen to celebrate the UN Year of Glass, wit...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head, Institute of Biomaterials at FAU, will receive an honorary doctorate from Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Prof. Boccaccini is conferred the title of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in recognition of his successful research in biomaterials and his collaboration w...

Prof. Boccaccini will be an invited, keynote or plenary speaker at several conferences in 2022. He will present an invited talk about bioactive glasses in tissue engineering at the II Workshop for Young Researchers in Ceramics and Glasses for Medical Applications  Y-CGMED in Madrid, Spain. He will b...

In the week 31.01. to 04.02.2022 we received the visit of Dr. Agnieszka Piegat, assistant professor at the Department of Polymer and Biomaterials Science and Nanotechnology Centre, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland. She visited our institute as an Erasmus lecturer and deliv...

On 31st January 2022, Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the "International Symposium on Emerging Materials for Biomedical Engineering (EMB 2022)", 30-31 Jan. 2022, IIITDM Jabalpur, India, featuring many other distinguished speakers. The symposium was jointly organized by Mechanical Engineer...

On 26th January, Prof. Boccaccini delivered the invited lecture "Bioactive Composite Materials and Biofabrication Approaches for Tissue Engineering" in the framework of the lunch time seminars at School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Keele University, UK. The seminar was hosted by Dr. Gianpiero Di ...

On 18th January, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass). The FAU Institute of Biomaterials is one of the four international partners of FunGlass Center and Prof. Boccaccini advices spe...