2025

We are happy to report that Ms. Hannah Kissel, PhD student at the institute of Biomaterials under the supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini, won the first place of the best poster award competition at the Slovak and Czech Glass Conference 2025, which was held in Trenčín, Slovakia, on 12.-14. N...

Invited by Prof. Roman Perez Antoñanzas, Vice rector for Research, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer at the International University of Catalonia Barcelona and Director of the Bioengineering Institute of Technology (BIT) at UIC, Prof. Boccaccini visited BIT and presented the lecture: "Ionic Medicine...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at hosted and LATinBAY ("Latin America in Bavaria") conference organized by the Bayerisches Hochschulzentrum für Lateinamerika (BAYLAT), (LINK: https://www.baylat.org/ ) the Bavarian University Center for Latin America, organised in in Herrsching on 20...

The kick-off meeting of our new collaborative research project entitled “Degradation Studies of Resorbable 3D-Printed Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration” was held online on 29th October. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Argentinian Scientific and Technical Research ...

On 17 November 2025, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was conferred the Honorary Doctorate degree by the International University of Catalonia (IUC Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain. The solemn conferral ceremony took place in the Aula Magna of the University in Barcelona, attended by the Minister of the Dep...

On November 12th, invited by Prof. Viviana Mourino, co-organiser and Professor at Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, Prof. Boccaccini presented the invited talk titled: “Bioactive Materials in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications”, at the 8th Intern...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Slovak and Czech Glass Conference, held on 12-14 November in Trencin, Slovakia, under the topic: Innovation and sustainability in the glass industry. He presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses: From bone regeneration to biofabrication and ionic m...

On 12 November 2025, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was conferred the Honorary Doctorate degree by Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín (TNUAD) in Slovakia. The conferral ceremony took place in Trenčín in the presence of the University Rector, Prof. Jozef Habánik, members of the TNUAD Scientific ...

On 10th November, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the “Argentine-German Science Day” at the Embassy of Argentina in Berlin. This event was organised in the frame of Berlin Science Week and Prof. Boccaccini attended in his capacity as Scientific Coordinator (Emeritus) of the Network of Argentine Sc...

We congratulate Julia Lemos de Oliveira, M. Sc., PhD dual degree student between our Institute (co-supervisor: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) at FAU and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil. Julia presented the poster titled “ENGINEERING BIOACTIVE 3D SCAFFOLDS: COMBINING PRECISION ARCHITE...