Month: March 2023

The Webinar "Biomaterials and Wound Healing" took place on 30th March 2023, hosted by the journal "Burns & Trauma". Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses as multifunctional materials for wound healing and soft tissue repair". The Webinar chairs were Prof. Gino Ambrosio (Nationa...

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR” (P4FIT) took place at University of Keele, UK, on 26-27 March 2023, organized by Prof. Nick Forsyth, University of Keele. All Early Career Researchers (PhD students) presented the ad...

At the spring retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 225 held on 22-24 March 2023 at “Schloss Schney”, Lichtenfels, Jonas Röder (PhD student in our Institute) was re-elected as the Erlangen PhD student’s representative. In a second election he furthermore was elected as the head-re...

The first retreat of 2023 of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models”, was held on 22-24 March 2023 in Lichtenfels. Hsuan-Heng Lu, Jonas Roeder (PhD students), Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (pictured) at...

The kick-off meeting of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1540) "Exploring Brain Mechanics” was held on 17th March 2023 at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The CRC “Exploring Brain Mechanics” is carrying out research on the most complex system of organs that exists – the central nervous system...

On 21st March 2023, we received the visit of Prof. Peter Pivonka, School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. We have collaborated previously with Prof. Pivonka's team in the framework of a DAAD-Universities Australia funded project ...

The 2023 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship Holder Meeting took place on 17-20 March 2023 at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with participation of more than 450 international Master and PhD students. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers in this event. He present...

On 16th March 2023, Prof. Bikramjit Basu, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, presented the invited talk "Biophysical stimulation of stem cells on functional biomaterials: in vitro and in silico studies" at the Institute of Biomaterials. Prof. Basu, who received the Alexander von Humboldt...

On 16th March 2023, we received the visit of Prof. Dr.Ing.-habil. Izabela Stancu, Vice Dean of Research and International Collab., Faculty of Medical Engineering and Team Leader, Advanced Polymer Materials Group (APMG), Polytechnic University of Bucharest,  and Prof. Dr.Ing.-habil. Georgeta Voicu, D...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB), held in Davos, Switzerland, on 8-9 March 2023. Prof. Boccaccini serves in the ESB Council as ESB vice-president and as officer (liaison) for the ESB Young Scientists Forum (YSF). The meeting,...