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Marcela Arango Ospina, PhD student at our institute, carrying out a research project on angiogenic and antibacterial bioactive glasses under supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, won third place in the "1st Bioceramics Student Speech Contest" organized by the ECerS Bioceramics Network, held onlin...

On 10th May 2024, we received the visit of Prof. Delia Brauer and Dr. Coralina Chartier, from the Professorship for Bioactive Glasses, Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research at the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. After the successful completion of...

We congratulate Hazel Simila for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Sol-Gel Synthesis and Application of Ca-Si Nanoparticles as Multifunctional Additives in Restorative Dentistry” on 7th May 2024. Hazel carried out her doctoral project in our Institute supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boc...

The 1st Symposium on Materials Science and Engineering organized by the Network of Scientific Researchers in Germany (RCAA) was held on 2-3 May 2024 at the Institute of Materials Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany.  The symposium was organised by Prof.  Guillermo Requena, an...

The 17th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials (ScSB2024) took place in Helsingør, Denmark, on 23-26 April 2024. Prof. Boccaccini opened the conference with a Plenary talk entitled: "Exploring biologically active ions (bioinorganics) for applications in tissue engineering by in...

On 25-26 April, we received the visit of Assist. Professor Yongcong Fang, member of the BRE Lab and affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. Hosted by Dr. Rainer Detsch, Prof. Fang visited the laboratories of the Institute of Biomaterials and discussed wi...

Augusto Covone, a student from the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, who carried out a research internship at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials in the framework of the I.DEAR Program (Engineers Deutschland-Argentina, (part of the German-Argentine Univer...

The Annual Meeting of the Scientific Board of the FunGlass Centre (University of Trencin, Slovakia) took place on 18th April 2024, chaired by FunGlass Director, Prof. Dušan Galusek. The meeting was attended by board members from advanced partner institutions: *Prof. Alicia Durán* (CSIC Madrid), *Pro...

Assoc. Prof. Hamza Simsir, Karabük University, Turkey, visited the FAU Institute of Biomaterials on 17-19 April 2024, in the framework of an Erasmus's short-term mobility program. He presented the seminar: "Introduction to hydrothermal carbon materials and their applications" to all members of the I...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the European Training Network (ETN) BIOREMIA ("BIOfilm-REsistant Materials for hard tissue Implant Applications") (Horizon 2020-MSCA) Final Workshop held on 15-17 April in Vienna, Austria. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Bioactive glasses m...