International

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...

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...

The Institute of Biomaterials was represented by Marcela Arango Ospina at the International Workshop on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering held at the National University of Colombia (UNAL) in Bogotá from October 1–3. Following an invitation to Prof. Boccaccini, who could not attend, Marcela repres...

We are delighted to share that Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), will be receiving the Larry L. Hench Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bioceramics Division of the The American Ceramic Society this year. The Award for innovation is given annually to deserving i...

Three of our PhD students: Ms. Luiza Mirt, Ms. Marina Maric and Mr. Renato Matosinhos completed 1-month secondments at Ti-com, an organization based in Olsztyn, Poland, that bridges academic innovation and commercial success through large-animal clinical research. The secondments were carried out in...

It is great to report that during the first six months of 2025, our research projects in collaboration with colleagues from 20 countries have resulted in numerous publications, which can be found at this link: https://scholar.google.com/citations We are proud and honored to collaborate with such ...

We welcome the vising professors, post-docs, PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students who have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Summer of 2025. We are hosting junior and senior researchers from more than 11 different countries, who are working on a range ...

On 13th June 2025, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended (online) the symposium organised at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, to celebrate the career of Prof. Leena Hupa from sss. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses: from composition to applications (A short summary of my rese...

Many international researchers, including guest professors, post-docs, visiting PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Winter term 2024/25. We are hosting guests from 14 (!) different countries, who are working on n...

On 29th January 2025, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) co-chaired the FEMS online event exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Materials Science, which brought together leading experts from industry and academia to d...