On 9th November 2015 we received the visit of Dr. Bernard Chenevier, Support Unit for Strategic Programs, Okayama University, Japan. We discussed collaborations between the Institute of Biomaterials, the FAU Institute of Particle Technology (represented by Prof. R. Klupp-Taylor, Prof. N. Vogel, Dr. ...
The progress meeting of the DFG funded collaborative project "Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg Alloys" was held on 4th November 2015 at the Institute of Biomaterials. This project is a collaborative effort of the Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. S. ...
Following an invitation of Prof. Aleš Helebrant and Dr. Dana Rohanova, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented on 2nd November 2015, the guest lecture "Bioactive Materials and Biofabrication in Tissue Engineering: Progress and Challenges" at the Department of Glass and Ceramics, University of Chemistry a...
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...
