Doctoral thesis success: Florencia Diaz
Congratulations to Florencia Diaz for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Novel porous natural-origin polymeric patches for rotator cuff tendon repair” on 5th May, 2025.
Florencia carried out her doctoral project in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini in co-tutelle with Keele University, co-supervised by Prof. Nick Forsyth and in collaboration with Dr. Tina Dale at Keele University. The project was carried out in the frame of the Doctoral Training Network Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions “PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR” (P4FiT), of which Prof. Boccaccini was a principal investigator, coordinated by Prof. Helder Santos.
The defense was conducted online and the members of the doctoral defense committee were: Prof. Kyle Webber (Department of Mater. Sci. and Engineering, FAU), Prof. Karina Wright (Keele University, UK), Prof. Manuela Gomes (University of Porto, Portugal), Prof. Dagmar Fischer (Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, FAU), Prof. Anayancy Osorio Madrazo (University of Bayreuth) and Prof. Boccaccini. Prof. Boccaccini highlighted the innovative results obtained by Florencia, who developed and characterised novel 3D scaffolds with ordered porosity based on chitosan, gelatine and cellulose as additive for rotator cuff tendon repair. The project involved research at Keele University and other partner universities in P4FiT. Several papers have been already published resulting from Florencia’s thesis [1,2].
Many congratulations to Florencia for the successful defense of her doctoral thesis, we wish Florencia all the best in her future career.
[1] F. Diaz, et al., Aligned Ice Templated Biomaterial Strategies for the Musculoskeletal System. Adv. Health. Mater. 12 (2023) 2203205.
[2] F. Diaz, et al., Tuning the properties of all natural polymeric scaffolds for tendon repair with cellulose microfibers. Carbohydrate Polymers Technologies and Applications 7 (2024) 100447.
