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On 18th January, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass). The FAU Institute of Biomaterials is one of the four international partners of FunGlass Center and Prof. Boccaccini advices spe... Continue

Prof. Bastian E. Rapp, The Laboratory of Process Technology, NeptunLab, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, was the invited speaker on 18th January 2022 in the framework of the Materials Science Colloquium 21/22 hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Prof. Rapp presented the talk: "T... Continue

Our Open Access review paper "Gallium containing bioactive materials: A review of anticancer, antibacterial, and osteogenic properties" (authors: Fatih Kurtuldu, Nurshen Mutlu, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dušan Galusek) in Bioactive Materials (IF: 14.593) is available online. This review was written in the ... Continue

Our review paper "Bioactive glasses incorporating less-common ions to improve biological and physical properties" (authors: Usanee Pantulap, Marcela Arango-Ospina & Aldo R. Boccaccini) /1/, has been published (open access) in J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Medicine. This is a comprehensive review coverin... Continue

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The end-of-the-year 2021 meeting at the Institute of Biomaterials took place online on 16th December 2021 with participation of more than 70 Institute members. Professor Boccaccini gave a presentation summarizing the accomplishments of our Institute in 2021, including 5 successfully defended doctora... Continue

Dr. Magdalena Stevanovic from Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Centre for Fine Particles Processing and Nanotechnologie <http://www.itn.sanu.ac.rs/centeradvance.htm>, in Belgrade, visited our Institute on 8-10 December. We are currently collaborating... Continue

At the end of the year, we said good bye to several of our visitors: Dr. Mirna Sanchez returned to Argentina after her DAAD funded research stay, Meriem Bembli, Xinxin Ding and Jaime Orellana, all visiting PhD students, returned to Tunisia, China and Spain, respectively, to continue their research p... Continue

With funding of more than 12 million Euros the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB)/Transregio 225 project “From the basics of biofabrication to functional tissue models” is starting the second phase in January 2022. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is led by the Univ... Continue

This month we said good-bye to Dr. Liliana Liverani, a valuable and key member of our Institute for more than seven years, firstly as visiting PhD student, and then as post-doctoral researcher (Marie Curie fellow) and research lecturer. Liliana contributed enormously to the progress and growth of ou... Continue