BioBone

On 1-2 and 16-18 December 2015, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited the Department of Materials  at Imperial College London (ICL), where he has an appointment as visiting professor. Prof. Boccaccini is also a visiting lecturer at the ICL Composites Centre. Currently we collaborate with the Department o...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and PhD students Preethi Balasubramanian and Valentina-Miguez Pacheco (pictured) attended the 14th International Conference of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS 2015) held in Toledo, Spain, on 21-25 June 2015. Prof. Boccaccini served in the organizing committee of TOPIC 3:...

Ms Marta Gallo (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini), visiting PhD student from Department MATEIS, INSA Lyon, France, who is carrying out her doctoral thesis in the framework of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) (FP7) "BIOBONE" presented the talk: "Degradation and cell culture studies on cal...

The progress meeting of the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) BioBone project was held in Mons, Belgium, on 20-21 October, 2014. The BioBone network has as main objective the training of young researchers in the strategic area of bioceramics for bone repair. The members of the Institute ...

The Workshop on Cell-Material Interactions of the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) project BIOBONE was held in Davos (Switzerland) on 28-30 April 2014. In the picture Preethi Balasubramanian (PhD student), Valentina P. Miguez (PhD student), Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Rainer Detsch...

The Workshop "Mechanical characterisation of ceramic-based materials at different scales" of the BioBone EU ITN project was held in Lyon, France, on 6-7 November 2013. Following the workshop, the mid-term review meeting took place on 8th November, where both Preethi Balasubramanian  and Valentina Mi...

The 1st Workshop of the EU ITN "BioBone" was successfully organised by Prof. A. R. Boccaccini and held at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on 23-25 Jan. 2013 with participation of young and senior researchers of the different partner institutions collaborating in the EU ITN BioBone (coordinator:...