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On 16-17 May 2022, our Institute hosted the Workshop "Leadership Training, Project Management, Conflict Management, Negotiation, Communication" in the framework of our training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE), in Riga, Latvia, the EU funded pro...

On 17th May 2022, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the keynote lecture: “Biofabrication with Composite and Multimaterial Bioinks: Progress and Challenges” at the 1st International Conference on Advanced Materials for Bio-Related Applications (AMBRA 2022), held in Wrocław, Poland, on 16-19 May 2022...

On 3rd May 2022, we received the visit of Prof. Kerstin Galler, Director of the Dental Clinic 1 (Operative Dentistry and Periodontology) and Prof. Ulrich Lohbauer, supervisor of the Research Laboratory for Dental Biomaterials at the Dental Clinic 1. We discussed a number of possibilities for collabo...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the keynote lecture: "Bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics releasing multiple biologically active ions for regenerative medicine" at the Second Workshop for Young Researchers in Ceramics and Glasses for Medical Applications (Y-CGMed), held in hybrid form in Madrid ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been appointed as member of the Advisory Board of the Doctoral School "Biomaterials & Biointerfaces" (BioMatlnt) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria. The research focus of the Doctoral School BioMatlnt is on the interactio...

The first meeting of the Institute of Biomaterials in Summer Term 2022 was held online on 28th April 2022, hosted by Prof. Boccaccini and with participation of all members of the Institute, including research and teaching staff, post-doctoral researchers, PhD students, academic visitors, visiting st...

The first meeting of the Erlangen PhD students in the second funding period of the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR 225 ‘From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models’ was held on 27th April at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Being the...

Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Emerging Biomaterials for Advanced Applications (ICEBAA-2022), which was held during April 21-22, 2022 in virtual mode. The conference was jointly organised by Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu and Sibar Institute of Dent...

On 18-22 April 2022 we received the visit of Dr. Joanna Sadowska, senior post-doctoral researcher at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Dublin, Ireland. She is a member of the Tissue Engineering Research Group at RCSI, led by Prof. Fergal O'Brien. We are collaborating with Dr. Sadowska...

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) tops the list of German universities in the category “Citations per Faculty”, according the the latest edition of the prestigious “QS World University Rankings(R)”. In this important category that indicates the impact of the research being carried out acros...