2014

Our recent review paper, in collaboration with Prof. Larry Hench: V. Miguez-Pacheco, L. L. Hench, A. R. Boccaccini, Bioactive glasses beyond bone and teeth: Emerging applications in contact with soft tissues, Acta Biomaterialia 13 (2015) 1–15 has been listed as one of the most downloaded articles p...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the collaborative project meeting at the Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen with participation of Prof. Ulrich Kneser, director, Dr. Leila Harhaus and other members of the Department. Our Institute is collaborating ...

The Thirteenth Young Researchers’ Conference (13YRC) – Materials Science and Engineering was held on December 10-12th, 2014, in Belgrade, Serbia, organised by Materials Research Society of Serbia and the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Young researchers (...

Prof. Dr. Mohammed J. Kadhim Al-Tameemi of University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, is currently visiting the Institute of Biomaterials. Prof. Kadhim Al-Tameemi is the main supervisor of Ms. lman Adnan Annon Al-Khayyat, PhD student at University of Technology, Baghdad, who is carrying out part of he...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA) which was held on 20th-21th November 2014 at the Argentinean Embassy in Berlin. The meeting was also attended by the Ambassado...

Prof. Boccaccini has been invited to participate at the "Trilateral Symposium Architectured Biomaterials, Medical and Tissue Engineering" to be held on 4-5 December 2014 at the French Embassy in Berlin. The trilateral symposium is organized by the Science & Technology Department of the French Em...

Dr. Magdalena Stevanovic and students from Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Centre for Fine Particles Processing and Nanotechnologie, in Belgrade, visited our Institute in the week 17-23 November. We are currently collaborating with the group of Dr. Stevan...

Dr Jonny Blaker, lecturer at the School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK, visited our Institute on 18-20 November. Dr. Blaker was the first PhD student with Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at Imperial College London, and they pioneered the development of biodegradable polymer foam scaffolds reinf...

Professor Boccaccini delivered the invited lecture: "Advances and challenges in bioactive materials and scaffolds for tissue engineering" at the ILH Colloquium at the University of Paderborn (UP) on 27th November 2014, invited by Prof. Guido Grundmeier at the Department of Chemistry at UP. (Click im...

Prof. Boccaccini will present an invited talk at the Cluster of Excellence "Engineering of Advanced Materials" (EAM) 6th Symposium to be held on 24 – 26 November 2014 in Kloster Banz, Germany. His presentation is entitled: "Advances in Bioactive Materials and the Possible Links to Quantitative Biolo...