Our Institute was prominently represented at the Annual Meeting of the German Biomaterials Society (DGBM) held in Würzburg on 9-11 November 2017. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture "Bioactive glasses as ideal biomaterial vehicles for biologically active ion release in tissue engineering and...
Dr. Kai Zheng and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini were speakers at the meeting of the Technical Committee I (FA-I) "Physics and Chemistry of Glasses" of the German Glass Society. The meeting was chaired by Prof. C. Rüssel, University of Jena, and it was held in Erlangen on 26th September 2017. Th...
Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meetings of the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) that took place in the framework of the EUROMAT 2017 conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 17-22 September 2017. Prof. Boccaccini represents the German Materials S...
On 24-26 July 2017 Prof. Boccaccini visited the Department of Life Sciences at University of Westminster, London, UK, where he met Prof. Ipsita Roy and (part of) her team. We have been collaborating with Prof. Roy's research group for more than 10 years in the field of biopolymer-inorganic...
The last scientific meeting of the North-Bavaria Biomaterials Alliance (NBBA) in SS 2017 was hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and held at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, with participation of 22 researchers from the partner universities Würzburg, Bayreuth and Erlan...
On 18th July 2017, Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting of Topic Coordinators of the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) conference, which was held at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The group is preparing the MSE 2018 Call for Abstracts. The submitted proposals for symposia were evalu...
The Bavarian University Centre for Latin America (BAYLAT) celebrated 10 years and the inauguration of new offices in Erlangen on 14th July 2017. Prof. Boccaccini is deputy member in the BAYLAT board. BAYLAT is currently funded one of our research projects with Argentina. In the photos Prof. Boccac...
Prof. Leena Hupa, Åbo Akademi Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre, Finland, Prof. Delia Brauer, University of Jena, Germany, and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Institute of Biomaterials, Erlangen, the editors of the volume "Bioactive Glasses: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications" published by R...
Our Institute was represented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the German Glass Society (DGG), held in Weimar, Germany, on 29-31 May 2017. Professor Boccaccini co-organized the special session "Glasses in Healthcare" in collaboration with Prof. Delia Brauer, University of Jena, Germany. Keynote speaker...
The 5th "NanoHeal" School of the European Training Network (ETN) "Nano-tailoring organo-mineral materials - Controlling strength and healing with organic molecules in mineral interfaces" (NanoHeal) was held on 2-5 May 2017 in Nuremberg, organized by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the In...
