Our participation at the Annual meeting of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM) in Aachen

Dr. Rainer Detsch, Jahid Alakbarli (PhD student) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual meeting of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM) held in Aachen on 24-26 September 2026. Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the National Scientific Committee and co-chaired the session “Ceramics and Bioglasses” with Prof. Uwe Gbureck (Univ. of Würzbug). Dr. R. Detsch presented the poster: “Develoment of drop-on-demand bioprinting of gliobastoma spheroids in alginate/GelMA bioinks”, a research collaboration within the Collaborative Research Center TRR 225. A highlight of our participation was the award received by Mr Alakbarli (Best Master thesis award) for his thesis titled: “Bioprinting of Modified 3D Alginate-Based Glioblastoma Constructs via Combined Extrusion and Drop-on-Demand Approaches”. Congratulations! Prof. Joao Mano (University of Aveiro, Portugal) who recently received the Humboldt Research Award for carrying out a research collaboration with our Institute at FAU, attended the conference and presented the keynote talk: “Soft biomaterials providing organization freedom to cells”.