Month: August 2022

Prof. Bruno Henriques, PhD, associated with the Mechanical Engineering Department, the Postgraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, the Postgraduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering, the Postgraduate Program in Dentistry, and the Ceramic & Composite Materials Research Laboratories...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited two universities during his stay in San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina. He visited the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Industry (FCAI), National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), where he met Dr Silvia Clavijo and Dr. Daniel Millan) to discuss collaborations in the field of 3D...

On 16th August 2022, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was named Outstanding Personality ("Personalidad destacada") of the city of San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina, his hometown. The City Council of San Rafael recognizes in this way Prof. Boccaccini not only for his successful scientific career with stages in ...

On 9th August 2022, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini opened the XXI Encuentro de Superficies y Materiales Nanoestructurados (NANO 2022) held online and organized by National University of Río Cuarto and CONICET institutes in Argentina. He presented the invited talk "Bioactive glass nanoparticles: applicatio...

The UK-Germany Workshop "Sustainable Healthcare: Lessons from Covid" took place online on 1st - 2nd August 2022. This is an initiative of Prof. Peter Ogrodnik, School of Pharmacy & Bioengineering, Keele University, UK, and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in the framew...

Dr. Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman, who graduated with the Dr.-Ing. degree from our Institute in 2018, is visiting us in August. We are currently collaborating with Dr. Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman in the framework of a British Council funded project, involving also Prof. Ipsita Roy, University of Sheffield, UK...

We congratulate Bernhard Friedrich for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “Peptide-functionalized SPIONs for the removal of pathogens” on 29th July 2022. He carried out his doctoral project at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SE...

The end of the summer term 2022 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials, which took place on 27th July 2022. This was the first general in-presence meeting of the whole Institute in the last three years. Most members of the Institute attended. In his speech Prof. Bo...

We were happy to host 11th grade students from Latvia on 26th - 29th July in the framework of our collaboration with the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE). They were the winners of the BIO-GO-Higher competition which was organised for last year high school students from Latvia with the...