June 2015 › Institute of Biomaterials

European Ceramic Society Conference in Toledo, Spain

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and PhD students Preethi Balasubramanian and Valentina-Miguez Pacheco (pictured) attended the 14th International Conference of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS 2015) held in Toledo, Spain, on 21-25 June 2015. Prof. Boccaccini served in the organizing committee of TOPIC 3:...

Prof. Boccaccini invited speaker in Limoges

Prof. A. R. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the Sigma-Tech Days 2015 in Limoges, France, on 15-18 June 2015. He participated at the Summer School "Additive Manufacturing. A new way of thinking about objects design and fabrication". Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Advances in b...

Kick-Off meeting of new EU Horizon 2020 Project in Slovakia

Five European institutions joined the effort to establish a new research centre for functional and surface-functionalized glasses (acronym FunGLASS) in Trenčín, Slovakia, specialized on cutting edge research in the area of glasses with special functional properties and on functionalization of conv...

Institute of Biomaterials awarded €900,000 EU project to train PhD researchers to develop antibacterial medical materials

As part of the €3.9m (£2.8m) HyMedPoly project the Institute of Biomaterials at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Head: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been awarded a grant of € 924,782 funded by the European Commission to train PhD researchers for the development of drug-free an...

Prof. Boccaccini delivered main lecture at Italian Society of Biomaterials Congress in Ancona

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented a main lecture at the Congress of the Italian Society of Biomaterials (SIB) held on 3-5 June 2015 in Ancona, Italy. The title of the presentation was: "Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering: Overview, Advances and Challenges". Prof. Boccaccini has been also invited t...

Prof. Boccaccini at 16th EFORT congress in Prague

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the BonAlive Biomaterials Lunch Symposium: “BonAlive® bioactive glass – new possibilities for septic bone surgery" which was held on 28th May 2015 at the 16th European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) congress hel...

Materials Weekend in Warsaw (19./20. September 2015)

Professor A. R. Boccaccini will actively participate at the Materials Weekend in Warsaw, Poland, on 19-20 September 2015, which is organised in the gap between two major week-long european materials events: E-MRS Fall Meeting 2015: 15-18 Sept 2015 and FEMS EUROMAT 2015: 21-24 Sept 2015 hosted by W...