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Several members of our Institute attended the 7th International Symposium Interface Biology of Implants (IBI), held in Warnemünde/Rostock, Germany, on 5-7 June 2024. Prof. Boccaccini was a Keynote speaker and co-chaired the session "Innovative Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration II". He presented t...

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was a Keynote speaker at the 7th International Symposium Interface Biology of Implants (IBI), held in Warnemünde/Rostock, Germany, on 5-7 June 2024. Prof. Boccaccini also co-chaired the session "Innovative Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration II". He presented the keynot...

Many international researchers, visiting PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Spring of 2024. We are hosting guests from 13 (!) different countries, who are working on numerous biomaterial related projects involvi...

On 27th May 2024, at the opening ceremony of the 12th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC 2024), held in Daegu, South Korea, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was inducted to the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Becoming a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (...

On 24th May, we received the visit of Dr. Franziska Schmidt head of the Dental Materials and Biomaterials Science ("zahnärztliche Werkstoffkunde und Biomaterialforschung") research area, at the Department of Prosthodontics, Geriatric Dentistry and Craniomandibular Disorders, of Charité – Universität...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the lecture “Nanoparticle-coated Melt Electrowritten Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications”, a collaborative work with Dr. Irem Unalan, at the 24th Symposium on Composite Materials (Verbund 2024), held in Freiburg, Germany, on 22-24 May 2024. The symposium was orga...

On 21st May 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the invited lecture (online) titled: "Bioactive Glasses: From Bone Regeneration to Wound Healing" at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy. The lecture was hosted by Prof. Elisabetta Rosellini and was direct...

The "Biomaterials-Biofabrication: Emerging Technologies" Conference was held on 16-17 May 2024 at University of Lorraine, in Nancy, France. The conference was organised by Prof. Elmira Arab-Tehrany (Univ. of Lorraine), Prof. Ali Tamayol (Univ. of Connecticut, USA), Prof. Yupeng Chen (Univ. of Connec...

A new meeting of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) was held online on 14th May 2024 online with participation of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The Bioceramics Network was established in 2022 by the European Ceramic Society and is sponsored by the JECS Trust. Th...

Marcela Arango Ospina, PhD student at our institute, carrying out a research project on angiogenic and antibacterial bioactive glasses under supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, won third place in the "1st Bioceramics Student Speech Contest" organized by the ECerS Bioceramics Network, held onlin...