The Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials presented the Outstanding Biomaterials Thesis Award to Dr. Alexander Hoppe for his PhD thesis (Dr.-Ing.) completed in 2014 at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Biomaterials, under supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. B...
On 11th September 2015 Marwa Tallawi successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Biomimetic PGS based scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Boccaccini, Dr. Ipsita Roy (Department of Mol...
Our review paper "Hoppe, A., et al., A review of the biological response to ionic dissolution products from bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, Biomaterials 32 (2011) 2757-2774" is listed as the most cited article published in the journal Biomaterials since 2010, based on citation data extracted f...
The Journal of the Electrochemical Society (JES) Focus Issue on Electrophoretic Deposition, co-edited by Prof. Jay H. Dickerson (Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, USA) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, has been r...
Ms Teresa Buettner, who graduated last year from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at FAU, has won the first place of the Oldfield Award 2015 of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) for her Master thesis entitled "Analysis of Lithium containing Bioglass and comparison with 45S5 He...
On 28th August 2015 Yaping Ding successfully defended her doctoral thesis that she carried out in the field of electrospun polymer-inorganic hybrid and composite scaffolds for tissue engineering. Yaping was supervised by Dr. Judith A. Roether and Professor Dirk W. Schubert at the Institute of Polyme...
On 28th August 2015 Luis Cordero-Arias successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Electrophoretic deposition of organic/inorganic composite coatings on metallic substrates for bone replacement applications: mechanisms and development of new bioactive materials based on polysaccharides", ca...
Prof. Boccaccini visited several institutions during his stay in San Rafael, Argentina. He visited the Regional Faculty of Universidad Tecnologica Nacional where he talked to undergraduate engineering students about his research activities in the field of biomaterials. He also held meetings with col...
The first series of papers belonging to the inaugural volume (Vol. 1, 2015) of the Open Access-Only journal BIOMEDICAL GLASSES has been published. The inaugural volume will contain 20x papers and it is expected to be published in full before the end of the year. The editor in chief of Biomedical Gla...
In the framework of our collaborations with the Advanced Materials Engineering Laboratory and the Chair for Functional Materials at the University of Saarland, led by Prof. Frank Mücklich, Mr Federico Lasserre (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) visited our Institute on 3-4 August 2015. The collaborati...
