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The Senate and Approval Committee for Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the meeting held on May 20-21, 2021 approved*a second funding period of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1270 "Electrically Active Implants" –ELAINE* . SFB 1270 ELAINE is based ...

The second research in progress meeting of the international project “Development and characterization of drug free bioactive glass nanoparticles for biomedical applications” funded by the British Council under the Pakistan-UK Education Gateway scheme took place online on 11th June 2021. In addition...

A group of researchers from the Institute of Biomaterials (WW/) (Dr. Samira Tansaz, former PhD student, Dr. Rainer Detsch, and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) were part of the international team "Protein-based lighting" that has won the 2021 Materials Chemistry Division Horizon Prize: Stephanie L Kwolek A...

We congratulate Florian Ruther for successfully defending his doctoral thesis entitled “Development and characterization of a multi-layer patch with improved electrical stimulus transmission and self-regulating elastic properties for application in cardiac tissue engineering” on 4th June 2021. He ca...

The INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROCESSING & MANUFACTURING OF ADVANCED MATERIALS (THERMEC'2021) took place online on 2-5 June 2021. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered the keynote presentation entitled: "Biofabrication with composite bioinks: emerging approaches and challenges" in the session Adv...

Even with the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students have found their way to our Institute to carry out their research projects on a wide variety of biomaterial topics, including 3D printing, electrospinning, biopolymer-bioac...

Ms Maria Wątroba, PhD student at the AGH University of Science and Technology,  Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science, Krakow, Poland, has completed her stay at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Maria was recipient of a visiting fellowship...

Hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the latest online seminar of the _Collaborative Research Centre TRR225 took place on 27th May. The speaker was Prof. Heidi Declercq,  Tissue Engineering Lab, Department of Development and Regeneration, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Belgium, who presented the tal...

We are happy to announce that this year our Institute will start several research projects in collaboration with partners in Argentina. With the National Institute of Materials Technology (INTEMA), National University of Mar del Plata, we will start the project “Enhancing stainless steel implants: p...

On 26th May 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the _"First International Workshop on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering", organised by our alumnus Dr. Ing. M. Atiq Ur Rehman,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Space Technology Islamabad, Pakistan. Pro...