Month: June 2023

On 26-29 June 2023 PhD students Faina Bider, Zhiyan Xu and Jonas Roeder travelled to Riga, Latvia, to develop the in site training workshop on Advanced Drug Delivery & Drug Targeting as part of your on-going collaboration with the EU funded Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE). The wo...

Mateo Villavicencio and Ezequiel Agliano are the Master students from National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, in the framework of the student exchange I.DEAR program (Ingenieure Deutschland – Argentina) in Materials Science and Engineering. They have started their academic term at F...

The progress meeting of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) (ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL & ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATING PLATFORM)  took place online on 23rd June 2023. Ms Zoya Hadzhieva, Mr Muhammad Asim Akhtar (PhD students) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (principal investigator) attended the meet...

Our Institute is currently hosting four top biomaterials scientists, holders of fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Ass. Prof. Duygu Ege ( Boğaziçi University, Turkey), working on bioactive glass containing fibers for nerve repair, Dr. Sara Pourshahrestani, post-doctoral researcher...

The latest research in progress meeting of the international project “Development and characterization of drug free bioactive glass nanoparticles for biomedical applications” funded by the British Council under the Pakistan-UK Education Gateway scheme took place online on 19th June 2023. There were ...

On 16th February 2023 we welcomed a delegation from Department of Science Service (DSS), Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, including Mrs. Pochaman Tagheen, DSS Deputy director general, Mrs. Orasa Onjun, Director of division of chemical & consumer products, Mr. Kanit Tapasa, ...

Following the invitation of Dr. Cristina Volzone, President of ATAC (Asociación Técnica Argentina de Cerámica), on 15th June Prof. Boccaccini presented (remotely) the lecture "Bioactive glasses: multifunctional and versatile materials for the advances of regenerative medicine". The presentation was ...

Following the Partners progress meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) on 8-9 June 2023, with participation of Ms Zoya Hadzhieva, Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini representing our Institute, the meeting of the BBCE Steering Commitee took place, chaired by...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Board of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS),  chaired by FEMS president Prof. Anna Zervaki, which took place online on 6th June 2023. Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials Society (DGM) in FEMS Board sin...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was a co-chair of the "3rd International Conference on Alkali Activated Materials and Geopolymers: Sustainable Construction Materials and Ceramics Made Under Ambient Conditions", held on May 28 – June 2, 2023  in Cetraro (Calabria, Italy), organised in the framework of t...