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Welcome to the website of the Institute of Biomaterials, seventh Institute of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
The Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg started teaching and research activities on 1st October 2009 with the appointment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Aldo R. Boccaccini (formerly at Imperial College London, UK), as Professor and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials.
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Congratulations to Clara Dourado Fernandes on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Enzymatic Synthesis of Aliphatic Polyesters for Application in Tissue Engineering: Development and Characterization of Nanofiber Mats with Bioactive Glasses” on 17th September 2025 (online). Clara carrie...
Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva, Marcela Arango Ospina and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini successfully organized the annual BBCE (Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence) Summer School on scientific writing at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, which took place in Erlangen on 22-26 September 2025. The (10) participan...
Congratulations to Sonja Kuth on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Development of hydrogels based on oxidized hyaluronic acid for neural applications” on 26th September 2025. Sonja carried out her doctoral project in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The defense...