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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. Aldo R. Boccaccini (formerly at Imperial College London, UK), as Professor and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials.
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The first part of the kick-off meeting of the EU funded project "Perspectives for Future Innovation in Tendon Repair" (P4 FIT) took place remotely on 22nd January 2021. 33+ participants from 10 different countries and 21 different institutions (universities and companies) attended the meeting,... Continue
Already the third group meeting of the Institute of Biomaterials in 2021 (!) took place on 15th Jan. 2021, with participation of almost all members of the Institute and with four excellent presentations of Bachelor students of our materials science, medical technology and nanotechnology courses, on ... Continue
Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has recently joined as member the Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI). BPI is an initiative of the Universities Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Würzburg to combine the existing expertise in the three universities in the fields of polymer science and polymer engineering. BPI pr... Continue
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