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Prof. Boccaccini has been appointed member of the Advisory Board of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America ("Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina") (Director: Prof. Andrea Pagni, FAU) for the period 2021-2024. Prof. Boccaccini said: "It is an honoured to have the opp...

On 3rd August 2021, we received the visit of Dr. Alejandra Omarini, Dr. Tetiana Zhuk from Institute of Food Chemistry and Food Biotechnology (AG Prof. Holger Zorn), University of Giessen, and and Mr Bernhard Hellmann (AG Prof. Holger Zorn, JLU and AG Prof. Gunter Eckert ; We are planing a research c...

Another training in the framework of the EU Funded (H2020) _FunGlass (Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass)_ (LINK: https://www.funglass.eu/ ) project has been completed at the Institute of Biomaterials in Erlangen. Ms Fulden Dogrul is a PhD student based at Alexander Dubcek Univer...

On 28th July 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the "International Webinars on Materials" organised by the associate laboratory CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, formerly CICECO-Centre for Research in Ceramics and Composite Materials, at University of Aveiro, Portugal, to...

On 28th July, Prof. Boccaccini was an invited lecturer at the seminar series of the Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics, Vellore Institute of Technology , India, invited by Prof. A. Joseph Nathanael and Prof. Dr. Geetha Manivasagam. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "B...

We congratulate Jennifer Hermann, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Synthesis and characterization of (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3 ferro-piezoelectric ceramics for bone tissue engineering" on 23rd July 2021. Jennifer carried out her doctoral project in co-tutelle (joint supervision), with ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the Editor-in-Chief of the "Biomaterials" Section  of the Open Access journal Materials for 8.5 years. He has now stepped down from this position and has joined the Advisory Board of the journal.  Prof. Boccaccini said: "It was an honor to serve in the editorial board of...

Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini are pleased with the acquisition of a new melt electrowriting (MEW) device at the Institute of Biomaterials. This facility is attached to one of the 3D bioprinters available in the tissue engineering laboratory of the Institute. Using biopolymers and co...

On 20th July 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited lecturer at the  International Symposium 2021 «Science and Society» of the DFG Research Training Group "Micro-, meso- and macroporous nonmetallic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications" ("MIMENIMA") invited by Prof. Kurosch Rezwan (MIMENIM...

Hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the last scientific seminar of the Summer Term 2021, also in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR225, took place on 16th July. The invited speaker was Prof. Grissel Trujillo de Santiago,  Assistant Professor, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias,...