International

Prof. Boccaccini hielt einen Hauptvortrag auf der Session (TC 05) "Vitrification of hazardous nuclear wastes" auf dem 23. Internationalen Congress on Glass, der in Prag, Tschechien, vom 1. bis 5. Juli ausgetragen wurde. Der Titel seiner Präsentation war: "Glass-ceramics from hazardous and non-hazard...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the "European CLINAM (European Foundation for Clinical Nanomedicine) and ETPN (European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine) Summit", held in Basel (Switzerland) on June 23-26, 2013. He presented the lecture "Development of Bioactive Nanostructured 3D scaff...

Dr Thomas Fiedler, School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia, visited our Institute on 18th June. There is a current collaboration between the group of Dr Fiedler and Prof Boccaccini in the field of modeling of the mechanical properties of 3D porous scaffolds and future collaborativ...

We are currently hosting Ms Marwa Talal, visiting student from the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt. Ms Talal studies Pharmacy and Biotechnology and is carrying out an internship at our Institute in the field of biopolymers for cardiac regeneration. (Click image to enlarge)

On 10-15 June 2013 we received the visit of Dr Elida Beatriz Hermida, Professor of Materials Science and Director of Research at Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina. Our two universities have signed a collaborative agreement which promotes the interactions and exchanges of students and aca...

Prof. Boccaccini presented the invited talk "Bioactive glasses exhibiting controlled therapeutic ion release for bone regeneration" in Symposium 24: Nanostructured Bioceramics and Ceramics for Biomedical Applications, at the PacRim 10 Conference in Ceramic and Glass Technology held in San Diego (USA...

The project in the field of Cu-doped bioactive glasses in bone regeneration strategies, a collaboration with Dr. Neven Zarkovic and Dr Lidija Milkovic of Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb (Croatia), has been approved by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for funding. Dipl.-Ing. Alexander...

These days we are hosting international students from UK, Italy and Greece. Ms Giorgia Franchin, Master student from the University of Padova, Italy, working in the group of Prof. Paolo Colombo visited our laboratories to investigate the bioactivity of calcium silicate scaffolds. Mr Dimitris Papageo...

Dr Barbara Shollock, Department of Materials, Imperial College London (UK), visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 13-15 May 2013. Dr Shollock presented the lecture "Metals in challenging environments: advanced characterisation of metallic surfaces" in the framework of the Materials Colloquium of ...