International

Dr Jonny Blaker, lecturer at the School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK, visited our Institute on 18-20 November. Dr. Blaker was the first PhD student with Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at Imperial College London, and they pioneered the development of biodegradable polymer foam scaffolds reinf...

Prof. Mirka El Fray, Director of the West Pomeranian Center of Advanced Technologies and Professor at the Polymer Institute, West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) in Szczecin (Poland), visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 16-22 November 2014. In the framework of an ERASMUS lectureship, ...

We are proud to be currently hosting several PhD students from different countries who have chosen our Institute to carry out part of their research activities, including Marina Trevelin (Federal University of Sao Carlos - UFSCar, Brazil), Junidah Lamaming (Universiti Sains Malaysia), Joanna Karbown...

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...