Year: 2023

The Indo-German Workshop BIODENT, co-chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU) and Prof. Bikramjit Basu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), will be held on 13-15 February 2023 at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. T...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the Poster Session 2023 of the Elite Master’s Programme "Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP)" held at the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Films, FAU. In the MAP program, Prof. Boccaccini is the head of the focal subject "Biomaterials and Bioprocessing". Durin...

On 31st January 2023, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an (online) invited seminar at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, Poland, invited by Prof.  Łukasz John, Head of the Biomaterials Chemistry Group. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses meet biofabrication: novel...

On 27th Jan., Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the ceremony hosted by FAU President Prof. Joachim Hornegger (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini), to mark 25 years of public service in Germany. The event took place in the FAU Castle (headquaters of the University) with participation of many FAU colleagu...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini will be coordinating, from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) side, a new doctoral double degree program between FAU and Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil. Students enrolled in this program can obtain a Ph.D. degree at FAU and simultaneously at UF...

The kick-off meeting of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) took place at Polytechnic of Turin (POLITO), Italy on 16-18 January 2023. This project involves the collaboration of three academic partners (Polytechnic of Turin, University of Turin and our Institute at FAU) and several industrial...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB), held online on 13th January 2023. Prof. Boccaccini serves in the ESB Council as ESB vice-president and as officer (liaison) for the ESB Young Scientists Forum (YSF) . The next important ESB e...

On 11-13 January 2023, we received the visit of Dr. Jonny Blaker, Research Area Lead for Biomedical Materials, Henry Royce Institute, and Senior Lecturer in Biomaterials at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Dr. Blaker presented an Institute's seminar on "Hierarchical nanofibre constructs...

With the start of the new year we are happy to inform that two projects have been selected by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with participation of our Institute. One of the projects titled "Advanced Manufacturing of Multifunctional Scaffolds" is in collaboration with Prof. Dachamir Hot...