Doctoral thesis success: Kanwal Ilyas
Congratulations to Kanwal Ilyas for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “3-D Printed Hierarchical Polymer-Bioactive Glass Composites Incorporating Biologically Active Agents as a New Family of Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering” on 30th April 2025. Kanwal carried out her doctoral project in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The members of the committee where Prof. Dirk Schubert (Department of Mater. Sci. and Engineering, FAU), Prof. Dusan Galusek (Univ. of Trencin, Slovakia), Prof. Andreas Arkudas (University Hospital Erlangen) and Prof. Boccaccini. Prof. Boccaccini highlighted the innovative results obtained by Kanwal who developed and characterised a new family of 3D printed PCL or PLA based scaffolds functionalised with mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles and biomolecules (phytotherapeutics) for bone regeneration applications. Some papers were already published resulting from Kanwal’s thesis [1-2]. Many congratulations to Kanwal for the successful defense of her doctoral thesis, we wish Kanwal all the best in her future career.
[1] K. Ilyas, et al., Boswellia sacra Extract-Loaded Mesoporous Bioactive Glass Nano Particles: Synthesis and Biological Effects, Pharmaceutics 2022, 14(1), 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14010126
[2] K. Ilyas, A. R. Boccaccini, Enhancing the Biological Performance of Bioactive Glasses by Combination with Phytotherapeutic Compounds, Chapter 12 in: Bioactive Glasses and Glass‐Ceramics: Fundamentals and Applications (2022) pp. 263-292. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119724193.ch12
