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...
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...
