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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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On 14th April 2025, Prof. Boccaccini visited DTU Health Tech (Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark) in Lyngby (near Copenhagen), Denmark, invited by Prof. Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz and Dr. Tatiane Eufrásio-da-Silva. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture "Bioactive glasse...
The classical “coffee and cakes” Spring meeting of PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and international visitors of the Institute of Biomaterials took place on 6th April. Even if some Institute's members missed this nice social get-together, most group members attended, and fifteen (!) national...
On 31st March, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Rainer Detsch visited the University Hospital Erlangen, especifically Prof. Dr. med. Mario Perl, Head of the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery and Prof. Dr. med. Marcel Betsch, Head of Orthopedics. We are planing new collaborations in the fi...