Month: August 2015

On 28th August 2015 Yaping Ding successfully defended her doctoral thesis that she carried out in the field of electrospun polymer-inorganic hybrid and composite scaffolds for tissue engineering. Yaping was supervised by Dr. Judith A. Roether and Professor Dirk W. Schubert at the Institute of Polyme...

On 28th August 2015 Luis Cordero-Arias successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Electrophoretic deposition of organic/inorganic composite coatings on metallic substrates for bone replacement applications: mechanisms and development of new bioactive materials based on polysaccharides", ca...

Marking the German Materials Society award (DGM Award) that Prof. Boccaccini will receive in September, he was interviewed in the San Rafael Newspaper on 19th August and on 23rd August and in LV4 Radio San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina. A note has been also published in the Bulletin of the American Cer...

Prof. Boccaccini visited several institutions during his stay in San Rafael, Argentina. He visited the Regional Faculty of Universidad Tecnologica Nacional where he talked to undergraduate engineering students about his research activities in the field of biomaterials. He also held meetings with col...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, will receive this year the DGM Award (DGM Preis 2015) from the German Materials Society (DGM). This award recognizes outstanding materials ...

The first series of papers belonging to the inaugural volume (Vol. 1, 2015) of the Open Access-Only journal BIOMEDICAL GLASSES has been published. The inaugural volume will contain 20x papers and it is expected to be published in full before the end of the year. The editor in chief of Biomedical Gla...

In the framework of our collaborations with the Advanced Materials Engineering Laboratory and the Chair for Functional Materials at the University of Saarland, led by Prof. Frank Mücklich, Mr Federico Lasserre (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) visited our Institute on 3-4 August 2015. The collaborati...

Prof. Boccaccini will serve in the editorial board of the new international journal Biomanufacturing Reviews. The journal is published by Springer in the Biomedical Engineering section and the editor-in-chief is Prof. Paulo J.d. Silva Bartolo (Univ. of Manchester, UK). Biomanufacturing Reviews will ...