Month: February 2015

Professor Boccaccini will be the speaker at the March 2015 meeting of the London Materials Society (LMS). On 12th March 2015, he will present the lecture: "Biomaterials and Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration". Prof. Boccaccini was chairman of LMS Council in 2005-2006 and he is currently international...

Our paper: Fabrication of alginate–gelatin crosslinked hydrogel microcapsules and evaluation of the microstructure and physico-chemical properties by Bapi Sarker, Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou, Raquel Silva, Tobias Zehnder, Farhana Gul-E-Noor, Marko Bertmer, Joachim Kaschta, Konstantinos Chrissafis, Rai...

The 5th International Conference on Biofoams (BIOFOAMS 2015) will be held on 13-16 October 2015 in Sorrento, Italy. The conference will bring together experts in bio-based, sustainable and biodegradable foams, bio-inspired foams, foams in medicine and food. The conference will be a forum for scienti...

Ms Marta Gallo (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini), visiting PhD student from Department MATEIS, INSA Lyon, France, who is carrying out her doctoral thesis in the framework of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) (FP7) "BIOBONE" presented the talk: "Degradation and cell culture studies on cal...

Professor Showan N. Nazhat, Associate Professor in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, visited our Institute and presented the seminar: "Anisotropic injectable tissue equivalents". He gave an overview on the latest research results in his group in...

A new European project in the framework of Horizon 2020 has been awarded to the Institute of Biomaterials (Head, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini). The project "Nano-tailoring organo-mineral materials. Controlling strength and healing with organic molecules in mineral interfaces" (NanoHeal) is funded by the...

Our recent review paper, in collaboration with Prof. Larry Hench: V. Miguez-Pacheco, L. L. Hench, A. R. Boccaccini, Bioactive glasses beyond bone and teeth: Emerging applications in contact with soft tissues, Acta Biomaterialia 13 (2015) 1–15 has been listed as one of the most downloaded articles p...

The Working Groups meeting of the COST Action "From NAno to MAcro BIOmaterials (design, processing, characterization, modeling) and applications to stem cells regenerative orthopedic and dental medicine (NAMABIO) was held at AO Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland, on 5-6 February 2015. Prof. Bocc...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the kick-off meeting of the ETN project CoACH (European Training Network: Advanced glasses, Composites And Ceramics for High growth Industries) in Turin, Italy, on 2-3 February 2015. The project CoACH is funded by the European Commission through the Marie Skłodowska...