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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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The first Retreat of the Research Unit “Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue” (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), took place on 4-6 September 2024 in Kloster Lehnin, Brandenburg, organised by Prof. Claudia Fleck, from the Institute for Materials Science, TU Berlin. At the...
On 3-4 September 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Workshop NATUGEL 2024 - Natural Hydrogels for Applications in Tissue Engineering at the Campus Mechanical Engineering Garbsen, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), organised by Professor Birgit Glasmacher and Sara Leal Marin, M.Sc., Institut...
In the week 2-6 September 2024, our Institute was part of the BEST (Board of European Students of Technology) course in Erlangen on "Additive Manufacturing", in which engineering students from several EU countries participated. Prof. Boccaccini attended the Opening Ceremony of the course and delive...