2025

We thank everyone at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials: permanent academic, administrative and technical support staff, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, students, visiting scientists, collaborators and supporters for the great commitment, hard work and continuous support during 2025, in whic...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was invited to serve as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Center for Research in Multiscale Science and Engineering (CCEM), a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. He attended the first SAB mee...

The European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) Annual Symposium & Ceremony 2025 were held on 17-18 December at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, under the theme /“Societal Impact of Fundamental Sciences.” /The event featured high-level scientific exchange in fundamental science, focusing on topics with si...

Prof. Sebastián Graf Caride, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Exact and Natural Sciences, at Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 16th December 2025. He was hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. We discussed with Prof. Graf possibilities for coll...

The Institute of Biomaterials successfully organized a workshop on "Project Writing and Project Partner Search," held on 16–18 December, as part of its training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE) in Riga, Latvia. The workshop was conducted within ...

We are pleased to announce the approval of funding through the Institute Partnership Program by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the research project with the Central Metallurgical Research & Development Institute (CMRDI), Egypt, entitled “Synergistic hybrid organic–inorganic coating st...

We are delighted to announce the recognition obtained by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini from the FAU Faculty of Engineering. He obtained 1st place across the entire Faculty of Engineering in the teaching evaluation by Master's students of the course "Biomaterials (Implant Materials)". Prof. Boccaccini sai...

The kick-off meeting of our project "Toward the design and customization of borate bioactive glasses, from fundamental composition–structure–property correlations to advanced 3D structures" (3Dboron4bone), was held online on 15th December 2025. This 3-year project was selected for funding by the NCN...

Congratulations to Vera Citro on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Nano-delivery to enhance stem cell/synthetic hybrid-based tendon regeneration protocol” on 12th December, 2025. Vera carried out her doctoral project at Keele University, UK, supervised by Prof. Nicholas Forsyth and ...

Our Research Unit FOR 5657 "BioAntiFatigue", funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation, gathered in Berlin on 9-10 December 2025 to discuss recent progress and future directions of the collaborative work on fatigue-resistant biological and bioinspired materials...