Month: January 2017

On 26-27 Jan. 2017 Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini visited the University of Rostock. We plan collaboration with the research group of Prof. Hermann Seitz, Chair of Fluid Technology and Microfluidics (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini), in the field of additive manufacturing and characterisation of 3D sca...

Motivated by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials), the Erlangen branch of the Young Members Section of the German Materials Society (DGM) ("Jung-DGM Erlangen-Nuremberg") was founded in November 2016. The current speaker of the Jung-DGM Erlangen-Nuremberg is Ms Svenja Heise ...

Prof. Uwe Gbureck, Department for Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry, University Hospital Würzburg, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 17th January 2017. We discussed with Prof. Gbureck collaboration in the field of biomaterials for bone regeneration, in particular following our co...

On 16th January 2017, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an invited lecture entitled: "Biointerfaces in Bone Regeneration Applications" at Waldkrankenhaus St. Marien Erlangen, following an invitation of Dr. med. Stefan M. Sesselmann, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Erlangen-Nurember...

Two meetings of the DFG funded project "Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg Alloys" were held in January. On 10th January the meeting took place at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg (OTH Regensburg), hosted by Prof. Helga Hornberger (former at FAU). The second project meeting took place on 13th ...

On 12th January 2017 we received the visit of Prof. Stephan Wolf, Junior professor for Biomimetic Materials and Processes at the Institute for Glass and Ceramics, FAU. Prof. Wolf presented the lecture: "Nature doesn’t follow text books: nonclassical crystallization pathways in biomineralization". We...