Projekte

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...

Prof. Hélder A. Santos, Head of the Department of Biomaterials and Biomedical Technology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Director and Head of the Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering Lab, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland, visi...

Lisa Schoebel, PhD student in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and carrying out a project in the framework of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Center SFB 1270/2 ELAINE - Electrically Active Implants has started a research internship at the Shriram Center for Bioengineering ...

The Winter School 2024 of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR” (P4FIT) took place in Seefeld, Austria, on 17-20 January 2024, organized by Prof.  Johannes Stöckl Medical University of Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with Prof. Helder Santos (P...

The final meeting of the year 2023 the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) was held online on 20th December 2023 with participation of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The network is coordinated by Prof. Paola Palmero from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Prof. Boccaccini i...

We are finishing the year with good news. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved for funding the Research Unit "Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue", which will focus on materials science structure-property strategies based on natural systems with evolutionarily optimised fatigue resistance. The Res...

We have added an electrical conductivity measuring device to expand the experimental capabilities of our laboratory. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) device will enable us to characterize electrically conductive materials in greater detail. The advantage of this device lies in its ad...

On 4 December, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini chaired a joint online workshop between Department heads and Administration staff at FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia, and experts from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU): Dr. Julia Will from Institute of Biomaterials and Dr. Marco Mank f...

Co-organised by Dr. Martin Michálek  (Head of Department, FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the 1st Biomaterials Research Day of the Department of Biomaterials at FunGlass Center was held on 24th November 2023 in hybrid form. This was a scientific symposium with presen...

Zoya Hadzhieva, Marcela Arango Ospina and Prof. Aldo Boccaccini successfully organized the annual BBCE (Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence) summer school on scientific writing which took place at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials in Erlangen on 13-17 November 2023. This event was directed to e...