Visit from Belgium

Prof. Boccaccini und Dr. Douglas

Dr. Timothy E. L. Douglas, senior researcher at Nano and biophotonics Group, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Gent University (Belgium), visited our Institute on 20th April 2015. We are collaborating in several projects with Dr Douglas’ research team in the field of hydrogels and composites for tissue engineering applications. Our latest joint paper has been published recently [1].

[1] T. E. L. Douglas et al., Injectable self-gelling composites for bone tissue engineering based on gellan gum hydrogel enriched with different bioglasses, Biomed. Mater. 9 (2014) 045014