International

On 18-20 July 2017 we received the visit of Prof. Susmita Bose and Prof. Amit Bandyopadhyay of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, W. M. Keck Biomedical Materials Research Lab Washington State University, Pullman, USA. Prof. Susmita Bose presented the invited lecture: "3D printing ...

During July-August 2017 we are hosting researchers from the School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, in the framework of the DAAD/CSC funded project in the field of nanostructured bioactive coatings for orthopedic applications. Ms Hongfei Qi (PhD student) and P...

On 14th July 2017 we received the visit of Prof. Dr. Thomas Fiedler, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia. We have been collaborating with Prof. Fiedler for a number of years in the field of characterisation of bioactiv...

  Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 15th Conference and Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS), held on July 9-13, 2017, in Budapest, Hungary. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Expanding applications of bioactive glasses in tissue engineering and wound he...

The 2nd "Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare" (BioMaH) Conference will be held in Rome, Italy on October 8-11, 2018. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, Erlangen, Germany) and Prof. Mauro Alini (Vice-Director AO Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland) will serve as ...

On 3-4 July 2017 we received the visit of Dr. Xiaoju Wang from the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry of Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, led by Prof. Leena Hupa. We have a long term collaboration with the group of Prof. Hupa in the field of bioactive glasses for bone tissue engineering. Dr....

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Slovak and Czech Glass Conference and Seminar on Defects in Glass that took place in Trenciaske Teplice, Slovakia, on June 28-30, 2017, chaired by Prof. Dusan Galusek, Alexander Dubček University,Trenčín, Slovakia. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lectu...

In the framework of the collaborative project "Assessment of vascularisation potential of 3D Bioglass scaffolds for tissue engineering of large bone defects using a mechanobiological approach" between Queensland University of Technology, University of Melbourne, Australia, and our Institute, Prof. P...

In the framework of the European network (MSCA-ITN-2014-EID - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks) HyMedPoly – Drug-Free Antibacterial Hybrid Biopolymers for Medical Applications, our Institute is collaborating with Lucideon Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent, UK, in the field of organic and ino...