Our participation at the 98th Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) 2023

Prof. Boccaccini at the gala dinner with the Institute members.

Our Institute was represented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) Keramik/Ceramics 2023 by Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina (PhD student), Ms Usanee Pantulap (PhD student), Ms Akrity Anand (PhD student, based at FunGlass Centre, Slovakia) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Also Dr.  Rajan Choudhary (post-doctoral researcher at BBCE, Latvia, and currently visiting researcher in our Institute) attended the meeting. The conference took place in Jena on 27-30 March 2023. Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the organizing committee of Keramik/Ceramics 2023 and led the organization of the “Bioceramics” sessions, which he co-chaired during the event. He presented the talk: “Mesoporous bioactive glasses with therapeutic ion and biomolecule releasing capability for biomedical applications”, stepping in for Dr. Qaisar Nawaz, who could not attend due to illness.  Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina presented the poster “In vitro evaluation of the angiogenic potential of dissolution products from bioactive glasses”, for which she received one of the “Best Poster” awards. Well done!