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The "10 Year Anniversary" International Symposium to celebrate the 10 years of the Institute of Biomaterials was held on 29th November 2019 at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). More than 120 participants attended the symposium, which featured a high quality scientific program of international ... Continue

On 16-30 November 2019, we received the visit of Dr. Beatriz Araoz, researcher affiliated with the "Lab3Bio  - Laboratorio de Biomateriales, Biomecánica y Bioinstrumentación", School of Science and Technology, National University of San Martin (UNSAM), Argentina. The visit was in the framework of ou... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Scientific Symposium, organised to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA),  and the Annual General Meeting of the RCAA, which were held on 21-22 November 2019 at the Emba... Continue

At the General Assembly of the Network of Argentinean Scientists in Germany (RCAA) held at the Embassy of the Argentine Republic  in Berlin on 22.11.2019, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials), was reelected for another 2 years as RCAA Scientific Coordinator. The RCAA has more t... Continue

The second Review Meeting of the Centre for Functional and Surface-functionalised Glasses (FunGlass) took place on November 18 – November 20, 2019, at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, with participation of representatives of the European Commission and partners institutions, including externa... Continue

We are happy to report that Svenja Heise, who completed her doctoral thesis under supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Institute of Biomaterials in 2018 was awarded the Doctoral Thesis Prize of the Alumni Asociation of the Faculty of Engineering Erlangen (" Freundeskreis im Alumni Technisc... Continue

On 12-16 November 2019 we received the visit of Dr. Magdalena M. Stevanovic, Principal Research Fellow at Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. Dr. Stevanovic presented the lecture "Polyester micro- and nanosized systems for controlled drug de... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Colloquium held on 14th November 2019 to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Chair of Materials Science (CMS), Otto Schott Institute for Materials Research, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. Prof. Boccaccini followed an invitation of the Head ... Continue

Ms Elisa Zanchi, PhD student at the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, has completed her stay at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Elisa was recipient of a fellowship of the EUROPEAN VIRTUAL INSTITUTE ON KNOWLEDGE-B... Continue

We were honoured to receive the visit of Prof. Rajendra K. Bordia, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, USA. On 13th November Prof. Bordia visited our laboratories and we discussed areas for research collaborations in the field of fabrication and characterisation of b... Continue