TRR225

Dr. Rainer Detsch, Ms. Hsuan-Heng Lu (PhD student) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting 2024 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM), which was held on 10-12 October 2024 in Berlin. Dr. Detsch and Ms. Lu presented posters related to our work on bioinks in the framework of t...

In the week 2-6 September 2024, our Institute was part of the BEST (Board of European Students of Technology)  course in Erlangen on "Additive Manufacturing", in which engineering students from several EU countries participated. Prof. Boccaccini attended the Opening Ceremony of the course and delive...

We are happy to announce that Dr. Susanne Heid received the award for best doctoral thesis 2024 of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The Department recognizes two outstanding doctoral theses carried out in any of the nine Institutes of the Depar...

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...

The Spring Retreat 2024 of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” was held on 18-20 March 2024 in Kloster Banz, Bavaria, Germany. Hsuan-Heng Lu, Jonas Roeder (PhD students, working on projects B03 and A01, respectively...

We congratulate Susanne Heid for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Alginate-based composite bioinks and thermoplastic polymers as biomaterials for sequential 3D printing of tissue constructs and bioreactors” on 15th March 2024. Susanne carried out her doctoral project in our Institu...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Rainer Detsch, and PhD students Hsuan-Heng Lu and Jonas Roeder participated in a measurement campaign at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) in the period 27th November - 3rd December 2023. This activity was in collaboration with Dr. Andre L. C Conceição, senior res...

In the framework of new investments in advanced equipment for our Institute, we were happy to receive recently our new 3D printer with multifunctional capabilities. This 3D printer will expand our laboratory infrastructure to carry out the different projects in which we are involved related to the a...

The first Autumn Retreat 2023 of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models”, was held on 4-6 October 2023 in Lichtenfels. Hsuan-Heng Lu, Jonas Roeder (PhD students), Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (pictured...

The Summer School 2023 of the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR225 "Biofabrication" took place in Erlangen in the week 24-28 July, coordinated by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU) and Prof. Felix Engel (University Hospital Erlangen, UKER). The Summer School involved lectures given by high profile s...