The highly cited review paper "Bone tissue engineering therapeutics: controlled drug delivery in three-dimensional scaffolds" (J. R. Soc. Interface 7 (2010), 209–227) was written when Prof. Boccaccini was at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London and Prof. Viviana Mouriño (Department o... Continue

On 17th Nov. 2020, Prof. Edgar Zanotto, Prof. of Glass Science and Technology, Head of the Vitreous Materials Laboratory, Univ. of Sao Carlos, Brazil, was the invited speaker at the Materials Science Colloquium of the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The colloquium was hosted by ... Continue

On 16th November 2020, Prof. Lobat Tayebi, Marquette University School of Dentistry presented an invited seminar at the Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, entitled: "Topics on Biomaterials and 3D Printing in Regenerative Medicine". Prof. Tayebi presented an overview of ve... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini chaired the online Scientific Symposium 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 12-13 November 2020. Prof. Boccaccini is currently the Scientific Coo... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an elected member of the Review Board (406: Materials Science) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)  for the area "Biomaterials" for two consecutive periods, from 2012 to 2020. Prof. Boccaccini said: "It has been a privilege and honor to serve the German materials sci... Continue

Recently, two papers have been published in collaboration with research groups from University of Rostock, Germany, in the context of the collaborative research center SFB1270 "Electrically Active Implants" ELAINE. The papers present: i) in-silico simulations of conductive hydrogels in capacitative ... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liverani were the organizers of the external training session on "Controlled release technology: delivery systems for pharmaceuticals and other agents", which was held remotely on 2-4 November 2020 in the framework of the program of training activities of the Baltic ... Continue

A new EU consortium with participation of the Institute of Biomaterials (Principal Investigator: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) focusing on tendon regeneration has been awarded a 4.1 M€ grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovat... Continue

Last week we said "good bye" to Dr. Zulema Vargas and to Dr. Shahin Homaeigohar, who were academic visitors in our Institute. Dr. Vargas was a post-doctoral researcher in our Institute in the framework of the training program for young scientists of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionali... Continue

Our University performed well in several subjects of the new edition of the The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject, including Computer Science (national rank 11), Life Sciences (national rank 15), and Engineering (national rank 6). Medicine, including dentistry, performed pa... Continue