Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has recently joined as member the Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI). BPI is an initiative of the Universities Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Würzburg to combine the existing expertise in the three universities in the fields of polymer science and polymer engineering. BPI pr... Continue

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The end-of-the-year meeting at the Institute of Biomaterials took place online on 17th December 2020. Professor Boccaccini summarized the accomplishments of our Institute in the year 2020, including 3 doctoral (Dr.-Ing.) theses. More than 70 Master, Bachelor and Project students carried out their pr... Continue

The last progress meeting of 2020 of the DFG funded project on advanced microstructural characterisation of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, was held remotely on 17 December 2020. In this project, we collaborate with researchers from Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Syst... Continue

On 17th Dec. 2020 Prof. Xanthippi Chatzistavrou, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, USA, presented the invited seminar: "Multifunctional glass-ceramic particles: Fighting resistant bacteria and promoting tissue regeneration" in the framework of our A... Continue

Our Institute was well represented at the 11th WORLD BIOMATERIALS CONGRESS (WBC 2020) held remotely on 11-15 December 2020. Prof. Boccaccini was an invited speaker in two workshops. He presented the lecture "Enhancing antibacterial effects of bioactive glasses by phytotherapeutic agents" in the "Cha... Continue

A new project investigating bioactive glasses in bone cancer treatment has recently started in our Institute in collaboration with Dr. Jörg Fellenberg and Dr. Fabian Westhauser, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, funded by the Cancer Research Society ("Deutsch... Continue

On 8th December 2020 Dr. Daniela Carta, Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey, UK, presented the invited talk: "Phosphate-based glasses prepared via in solution methods for biomedical applications"  in the framework of the seminar series "Advances in Biomaterials 2020" of the Institute of Bi... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered a plenary lecture at the “International Conference on Biomedical Materials Innovation-2020, (ICBMI-2020)”, organised by the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs-India (SBAOI), Society for Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine, India, held as a vi... Continue

We congratulate Lisa Kiesewetter who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Technologies for Vascularized Skin Equivalents to Study Cutaneous Wound Healing in Vitro” on 7th December 2020. Lisa carried out her doctoral project at University Hospital Würzburg, Chair for Tissue Engineering... Continue