International

The 4th GLACERCO scientific workshop and the last meetings of the management and scientific boards of the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) project "GLACERCO" was held on 22-23 October 2014 at University of Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France. Anahi Philippart (PhD Student), Elena...

The progress meeting of the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) BioBone project was held in Mons, Belgium, on 20-21 October, 2014. The BioBone network has as main objective the training of young researchers in the strategic area of bioceramics for bone repair. The members of the Institute ...

The progress meeting of the FP7 Europan project "Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents" (ReBioStent) took place in Turin (Italy) on 15-16 October 2014. This project is part of FP7 Theme "Biomaterials for Advanced Therapies and Medical Devices in the neurological/n...

The 5th International conference on EPD was held on 6-10 October 2014 in Schloss Hernstein, Austria. More than 85 participants, including senior researchers from academia and industry as well as students coming from more than 24 counties attended the conference, including 6 Keynote speakers, present...

The 6th International Workshop on Advanced Ceramics (IWAC-06) was held in Erlangen on 28-30 September. The symposium was chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and co-chaired by Prof. Peter Greil (Institute of Glass and Ceramics). This series of international workshops, which started in 2004, brings t...

Our Institute had a strong participation at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held in Liverpool on 31st August-3rd September 2014. Professor Boccaccini was a member of the International Advisory Committee of the conference and he chaired two sessions dedicated...

Ms Pooja Basnett (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) completed successfully her PhD project at the University of Westminster, London, UK, under supervision of Dr. Ipsita Roy (Head of Applied Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular and Applied Biosciences, University of Westminster) and wi...

On 29th August Prof. A. R. Boccaccini met in London Dr. P. Jackson (Lucideon), Dr. K. Atkinson (University of Cambridge), Dr Pooja Bassnet (University of Westminster) and Dr. M. Cresswell (Lucideon), who are research partners in the EU FP7 Project "Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeut...

On 4th August Prof. Jie Wei of the Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of the Ministry of Education and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, visited our Institute and presented the talk: "Bioactive biomaterials for bone...

Prof. Dr. Neven Zarkovic of the "Rudjer Boskovic Institute" in Zagreb (Croatia) visited our Institute this week in the framework of our DAAD funded collaborative project "Cu-Bioglass in bone regeneration strategies". The collaboration with Prof. Zarkovic and his team at the Laboratory of Oxidative S...