On 25th May 2020 Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Qaisar Nawaz (PhD student) attended the remote progress meeting of the DFG funded project on advanced microstructural characterisation of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics. In this project, researchers from Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of M... Continue

Waldemar will help in our increasing outreach and teaching activities in the field of biomedical materials and applications of materials in medicine as part of a new set of demonstration materials and models. We participate in several initiatives of the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engin... Continue

Our paper entitled "Effects of Medium pH and Preconditioning Treatment on Protein Adsorption on 45S5 Bioactive Glass Surfaces" has been published (Open Access) in Adv. Mater. Interf. [1]. This paper presents results of a successful collaboration with different research groups at the FAU Faculty of E... Continue

On 26th May 2020, Prof. Jens Günster, Head of Division "Ceramic Processing and Biomaterials" at Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing" (BAM), Berlin, delivered (remotely) the Materials Science Colloquium at the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The Colloquium was ho... Continue

Our recent paper: "Cu, Zn doped borate bioactive glasses: antibacterial efficacy and dose-dependent in vitro modulation of murine dendritic cells", published OPEN ACCESS in Biomater. Sci. 8 (2020) 2045-2330, [1] (co-authors: Katharina Schuhladen, Lena Stich, Jochen Schmidt, Alexander Steinkasserer, ... Continue

The regular meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB)  was held remotely on 20th May. This year ESB will be present at the World Biomaterials Congress (WBC). Prof. Boccaccini serves in the Council as ESB vice-president and as officer (liaison) for the ESB Young Scientists... Continue

We do not say "good bye" we only say "hopefully see you soon !" to Professor Helga Hornberger, who, due to her multiple teaching and research activities at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg (OTH Regensburg) will not be able to continue teaching in our "Dental Materials" course, which sh... Continue

In our new article "Schuhladen, K., et al., Manuka honey and bioactive glass impart methylcellulose foams antibacterial effects for wound healing applications, Biomedical Materials (2020) , we fabricated foams based on methylcellulose cross-linked with Manuka honey incorporating bioactive glass part... Continue

The first virtual meeting of the Institute of Biomaterials in Summer Term 2020 was held on 30th April, hosted by Prof. Boccaccini and with participation of all members of the Institute, including senior research and teaching staff, post-doctoral reseachers, PhD students, academic visitors, visiting ... Continue