Month: January 2020

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the opening ceremony and kick-off meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE)at Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia, which was opened by the president of Latvia, Mr Egils Levits. BBCE has received funding from the Euro...

On 22nd Jan. 2020 Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting, organised by the Bavarian University Centre for Latin America, BAYLAT, with Prof. Alfredo R. Lazzeretti, the Rector of the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMDP), Argentina, Prof Guenther Leugering, Vice-president for research, FAU, Prof...

The Institute of Biomaterials is currently hosting numerous international researchers and students, who have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the winter term 2020. We welcome Sofia Melucci and Manuela Matar Prior, visiting students (I.DEAR program) from National Univ....

On 16th Jan. 2020 we received the visit of Prof. Jan Hansmann, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt,  Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology and University of Würzburg. We are collaborating with Prof. Hansmann in ...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the regular meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB)held on 13th January in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. The latest Newsletter of the Council has been recently sent to all ESB members with a reminder of nominations for the ESB awards 2020. This y...

A series of papers from our Institute focusing on bioactive and antibacterial coatings have been recently published. These include: a work in collaboration with Prof. J. Ballarre (A. von Humboldt Foundation fellow), from INTEMA , University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, on silica-gentamicin-chitosan ...

Several papers from our Institute have been included in the list of "Most Cited" papers published since 2017 in the respective journals, according to the data base SCOPUS. These include: Regenerating bone with bioactive glass scaffolds: A review of in vivo studies in bone defect models Act...

The latest progress meeting of the project "Novel Biopolymer Hydrogels for Understanding Complex Tissue Biomechanics"funded by the "Emerging Fields Initiative, EFI"  of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg was held at the Institute of Biomaterials on 20 December 2019, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccacc...