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The first progress meeting of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD network "Perspectives For Future Innovation in Tendon repair (P4FiT)" took place on 24th March 2022 in Groningen, NL, hosted by project coordinator Prof. Helder Santos. The PhD students on this project, Florencia Diaz, Francesco Iorio, Seyma Se...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 2nd International Conference on “Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine”, which was held in hybrid format on 15-17th March, 2022. The conference was organised by our Institute's alumnus Dr. Ing. Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman, curre...

Dr. Rainer Detsch, Ms Susanne Heid (PhD student) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the progress meeting of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” held in hybrid form on 15-17 March 2022 in Kloster Banz, Germany. Th...

On 7-12 March 2022 we received the visit of Prof. Gustavo Abraham, Head of the Biomedical Polymers Division at National Institute for Materials Research (INTEMA), National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina. The visit took place in the framework of the IDEAR program funded by the German-...

Usanee Pantulap, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials (supervisor: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) won the second prize of the best poster/video competition at the Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) Ceramics 2022, which was held online on 7-9 March 2022. Usanee presented a poster a...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the co-organiser TOPIC 06 “Ceramics for Healthcare”, with Prof. Dusan Galusek (Univ. of Trencin, Slokakia), and co-chaired the respective sessions in the framework of the CERAMICS 2022 conference http://www.2021.dkg.de/info/home/en, the 97th Annual Meeting of the German ...

Many international researchers, collaborators, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students have selected our Institute to carry out their research projects in this winter-spring term 2022. They are working on a wide variety of biomaterial topics, including biopolymer-bioactive glass composites ...

The "Research in Progress" meeting of the ITN-EJD network PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR (P4FIT)  (EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020) took place online on 25th Feb. 2022. All early career researchers (ESRs) members of the network participated and presented the latest results achieved. ...

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...