Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini wins American Ceramic Society award
Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head, Institute of Biomaterials, is the winner of the prestigious “Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture Award 2016” by the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE) . The award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to ceramic engineering. Those contributions will have a technological basis that relates to the processing or manufacturing of ceramic products. The award will be presented at the ACerS Honors and Awards Banquet at MS&T 2016 conference joint with ACerS 118th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, USA. Prof. Boccaccini will present the lecture and tutorial entitled: “Bioactive Glasses in Soft Tissue Repair. What Do We Know So Far?” Prof. Boccaccini is a Fellow of ACerS and a member of the ACerS Basic Science Division.