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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 3-4 February 2025 we received the visit of Ass. Prof. Francesco Baino from Institute of Materials Physics and Engineering, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Prof. Baino is an expert in the field of scaffolds for bone tissue engineering and bioactive glasse...
The General Assembly and Update Meeting of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1540) "Exploring Brain Mechanics" was held on 31st January 2025 in Erlangen. Prof. Boccaccini presented a summary of the progress in research project "X03: Engineering brain tissue-like matrices", of which ...
Many international researchers, including guest professors, post-docs, visiting PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Winter term 2024/25. We are hosting guests from 14 (!) different countries, who are working on n...