Prof. Boccaccini will serve in the editorial board of the new international journal Biomanufacturing Reviews. The journal is published by Springer in the Biomedical Engineering section and the editor-in-chief is Prof. Paulo J.d. Silva Bartolo (Univ. of Manchester, UK). Biomanufacturing Reviews will ...
On 29th July 2015 Wei Li successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "45S5 Bioactive Glass-Based Composite Scaffolds with Polymer Coatings for Bone Tissue Engineering Therapeutics", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Boccaccin...
On 28th July 2015 Qiang Chen successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Electrophoretic Deposition of Composite Coatings with Bioactive Character and Drug Delivery Capability", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition of Prof. Boccaccini, ...
Dr. Begoña Ferrari, Tenured Scientist at Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (ICV), CSIC, Madrid, Spain, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 27-29 July 2015. Dr. Ferrari leads a research program on Colloidal Processing at ICV, including broad research activities in the field of electrophoretic depos...
On 22nd July 2015 Bapi Sarker successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Advanced Hydrogels Concepts Based on Combinations of Alginate, Gelatin and Bioactive Glasses for Tissue Engineering", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition of Prof...
Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented a main lecture at the Congress of the Italian Society of Biomaterials (SIB) held on 3-5 June 2015 in Ancona, Italy. The title of the presentation was: "Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering: Overview, Advances and Challenges". Prof. Boccaccini has been also invited t...
Prof. Dr. Gundula Schulze-Tanzil of the Institut für Anatomie, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Abteilung Nürnberg, Klinikum Nürnberg-Nord (Nuremberg Hospital), Nuremberg, visited our Institute on 21st May 2015. She presented the seminar: "Tissue-engineering based experimental approaches f...
The volume of Key Engineering Materials (vol. 654, 2015) containing papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition (Hernstein, Austria, 5-10 October 2014) (Chairman: Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been published: Key Engineering Materials, vol. 654, Electrophoretic Dep...
Our review paper:
Effect of Substrate Mechanics on Cardiomyocyte Maturation and Growth
Marwa Tallawi, Ranjana Rai, Aldo. R. Boccaccini, and Katerina E. Aifantis
Tissue Eng. Part B: Reviews 2015, 21(1): 157-165, written in collaboration with Prof. Katerina E. Aifantis, College of Engineering, Un...
Several papers co-authored by members of our Institute appear in the lists of "Top 25 Hottest Articles" released by Elsevier in which the 25 most downloaded articles in each journal on ScienceDirect are published. For the full year 2014, the following papers of our group are listed:
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