Laura Ramos Rivera successfully defended her doctoral thesis on 30th October 2019 at the Institute of Biomaterials. Laura carried out her thesis (Dr.-Ing.) under academic supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, with a fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) <https://www.daad.de... Continue

Our Institute was present with a stand and several demonstrators at the "Long Night of the Sciences" in Erlangen. The stand was placed in the exhibition area of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and different experiments were demonstrated, including electrospinning of polymer fibre... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, has been formally inducted to the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) of Germany, at the Annual General Assembly of the Academy that took place in Berlin on 15th October 2019... Continue

The final scientific meeting of the EU (Horizon 2020) project "Mesoporous matrices for localized pH-triggered release of therapeutic ions and drugs (MOZART)"  (grant agreement 685872) took place at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, on 16-17 October 2019, hosted by the project coordinator Prof. Chiara Vit... Continue

In the framework of our participation in the activities of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia, we are hosting four researchers of the FunGlass Centre, who will carry out research activities in our Institute for one ... Continue

Our article "Re-engineering Artificial Neoplastic Milieus: Taking Lessons from Mechano and Topobiology", authored by Dr. Aldo Leal-Egaña, Prof. Martial Balland and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been recently published in the Journal Trends in Biotechnology [1]. In this review, we describe recent adva... Continue

On 3rd of October (German Unity Day) 70 children aged 6-12 years visited the laboratories of the Institute of Biomaterials. At this nationwide "door opener day" of the very famous TV series “Sendung mit der Maus”, PhD students and researchers involved in the Collaborative Research Centre SFB / TRR 2... Continue

Our review paper "3D printing of electrically conductive hydrogels for tissue engineering and biosensors - A review" (authors: T. Distler and A. R. Boccaccini) has been recently published in Acta Biomaterialia [1]. This review covers the main 3D printing techniques used to obtain electrically conduc... Continue

Our paper "Favorable angiogenic properties of the borosilicate bioactive glass 0106-B1 result in enhanced in vivo osteoid formation compared to 45S5 Bioglass" has been published in Biomaterials Science [1]. (Co-authors: F. Westhauser, B. Widholz, Q. Nawaz, S. Tsitlakidis, S. Hagmann, A. Moghaddam, A... Continue