2025

Congratulations to Faina Schäfer for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Optimizing Alginate Hydrogels with Phytotherapeutics, Biomolecules, and Inorganic Fillers for Biofabrication” on 12th May, 2025. Faina carried out her doctoral project in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Ald...

  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...

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 pr...

Several papers co-authored by members of our Institute have been included in the list of Top Viewed Articles of journals published by the publisher Wiley. These include: "Reinforcing Tissue-Engineered Cartilage: Nanofibrillated Cellulose Enhances Mechanical Properties of Alginate Dialdehyde–Gela...

Our recent paper in Advanced Materials Interfaces titled "3D Printing of Photocrosslinked Alginate Dialdehyde-Gelatin Hydrogels Reinforced with Cobalt-Containing Mesoporous Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles for Developing Skin Wound Dressings", led by Dr. Ehsan Zeimaran, co-authored by Dr. Sara Pourshah...

On 14th April 2025, Prof. Boccaccini visited DTU Health Tech (Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark) in Lyngby (near Copenhagen), Denmark, invited by Prof. Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz and Dr. Tatiane Eufrásio-da-Silva. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture "Bioactive glasse...

The classical “coffee and cakes” Spring meeting of PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and international visitors of the Institute of Biomaterials took place on 6th April. Even if some Institute's members missed this nice social get-together, most group members attended, and fifteen (!) national...

On 31st March, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Rainer Detsch visited the University Hospital Erlangen, especifically Prof. Dr. med. Mario Perl, Head of the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery and Prof. Dr. med. Marcel Betsch, Head of Orthopedics. We are planing new collaborations in the fi...

We are proud to report that a new Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope with an integrated incubator was acquired and installed at the FAU Institute Biomaterials through a DFG large-scale equipment grant. This microscope was applied in collaboration with the research groups of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini,...

The 1st Technology Event "Materials for Health" of the EUMAT (European technological platform) was held in Brussels and online on 27th March, coordinated by Dr. Amaya Igartua (Tekniker, Spain) and Prof. Silvia Spriano (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy).  Prof. Boccaccini was invited to attend and he pres...