Month: July 2019

The progress meeting of the project "biofabrication of vascularized tissue constructs" funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) took place on 4th July 2019 at the Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The project is led by Dr. Raminder Singh and Prof. Iwona Cicha from t...

The Master thesis of Ms Sonja Kuth in the field of 3D printing and characterization of oxidized alginate-gelatin hydrogels for cartilage repair has been completed in collaboration with the group of Prof. Gundula Schulze-Tanzil at Institute of Anatomy, Paracelsus Medical University (PMU), Salzburg an...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the talk "Biomedical Composite Coatings by Electrophoretic Deposition" at the 22nd Symposium Composite Materials (22. Symposium Verbundwerkstoffe und Werkstoffverbunde) held on 26-28 June in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the Organizin...

On 2nd July 2019, we received the visit of Prof. Leonid Ionov, Prof. for Biofabrication at Faculty of Engineering Science, University of Bayreuth. Prof. Ionov presented the lecture: "4D Biofabrication using shape-changing polymers", in the framework of the scientific seminar series of the Collaborat...

In the framework of the DAAD PPP Greece project (project title: "Biodegradable osteoinductive scaffolds based on new functionalized polyesters, calcium silicate bioceramics and mesoporous nanocarriers, for bone tissue engineering"), in collaboration with the School of Dentistry, Department of Physic...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the lecture "The behaviour of cells on a composite scaffold" in the session "Bone scaffolding and drugs" at the 1st Seminar and Meeting "Cells and Extracellular Templates (CET)", held at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, on 20-22 June 2019. Prof. Boccaccini was a member...