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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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We congratulate Julia Lemos de Oliveira, M. Sc., PhD dual degree student between our Institute (co-supervisor: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) at FAU and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil. Julia presented the poster titled “ENGINEERING BIOACTIVE 3D SCAFFOLDS: COMBINING PRECISION ARCHITE...
On 3rd November, Prof. Boccaccini presented (online) the invited talk: "Can we persuade the body to heal itself? The biomaterials answer" at the "Science of Impact 2025: Biomaterials & AI" event, held online and in presence at CONICET, IFLP (Physic Institute of La Plata), Universidad Nacional de...
On 27-29 October 2025, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited the Biomaterials & Biofabrication Lab (JagodaLab) at the Center for Advanced Technologies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland), following an invitation of Assistant Professor Jagoda Litowczenko - Cybulska. Prof. Boccaccini toured...