International

A new project "Design and development of novel matrices for tissue engineering and/or drug delivery for pathologies of high social and economic impact" led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, FAU) and Prof. Dr Vivia...

The first annual meeting of the ITN EU Project GLACERCO was held on 8-10 February 2012 at the Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno (Czech Republic). Mr Rama K. S. Chinnam (PhD student) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini participated representing our Institut...

Dr. Ranjana Rai and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the progress meeting of the project "BIOactive highly porous and injectable scaffolds controlling stem cell recruitment, proliferation and differentiation and enabling angiogenesis for Cardiovascular Engineered Tissues” (BIOSCENT), a European Uni...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the 2nd meeting of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA), which was held on 17-18th November 2011 in Berlin. Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the area "Engineering" and a member of the Advisory Committee...

In the framework of the international collaboration between the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institute of Ceramics Research and Education), Ms Chikako Nakamura, student in the Graduate School of Engineering at NITECH, is visiting our Institute unt...

The Sino-German Symposium on "Multifunctional Biomaterials and Polymer-based Controlled Drug Release Systems" was held at the Centre for Biomaterial Development, Helmoltz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Campus Teltow, on October 26-30, 2011. The Symposium was chaired by Prof. Andreas Lendlein (HZG) and Pr...

In the framework of the Quebec-Bavaria Collaboration on "Nanocomposite biomaterials for bone regeneration" Prof. A. R. Boccaccini and PhD student Alexander Hoppe (in the photo with Prof. Nazhat and students of McGill University) visited recently the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, Mc...