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In the context of our participation as international partner in the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE),  a Horizon 2020 EU funded Teaming project, Dr. Liliana Liverani and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini organised the second edition of the Summer School on 18-22 October 2021, on "Scientific wr...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a plenary speaker at the "Encuentro de Investigadores y Docentes de Ingeniería" (XI EnIDI ),  held online on 20th October 2021 and hosted by National University of Technology (UTN), Regional Faculty San Rafael, ( Argentina. He shared the plenary session with his brother,...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a keynote speaker at the BioMaH "Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare" Online Workshop held on 19th October 2021. He presented the talk "50 Years of Bioactive Glasses: from Bone Substitution to Tissue Engineering". Prof. Boccaccini was also one the presiden...

We congratulate Lena Vogt for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Development and Characterization of Biopolymer-Based Fibrous Scaffolds with Enhanced Functionality for Cardiac Tissue Engineering” on 15th October 2021. She carried out her doctoral project in our Institute supervised b...

The first general meeting of the Institute of Biomaterials in the Winter Term 21/22 took place online on 14th October 2021, with almost 100 attendees, including research and teaching staff, post-doctoral researchers, PhD students, undergraduate students and international visitors. Prof. Boccaccini, ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, has been elected Vice-president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Prof. Boccaccini represents the German Materials Socienty (DGM) in the Executive Committee of FEMS since 2016...

We are happy to welcome Dr. Öznur Demir-Oguz and Mr. Abhishek Indurkar, researchers at the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE), based in Riga, Latvia, for their period of research training in our Institute. Dr. Öznur Demir-Oguz from Rudolfs Cimdins Riga Biomaterials Innovations and Devel...

We congratulate our former Master student Laura Schmidt who received the Best Master Thesis Award 2021 of the _German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM) at the Annual Meeting 2021 of the DGBM, which was held online on 7-8 October 2021.  She received the prize for her thesis titled "Oxidized hyaluronic ...

Our Institute has a strong show at the Annual Meeting 2021 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM), which was held online on 7-8 October 2021. Prof. Boccaccini chaired the session "Functional Biomaterials I, Dr. Rainer Detsch gave an oral presentation in the "Biofabrication" session while Dr. ...

The article “Bioactive glass demonstrates potential in treating giant cell tumor of bone”, published in  the September 2021 issue of Ceramic Bulletin, the Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, features our recent scientic publication in Biomaterials: “Selective and caspase-independent cytotoxici...