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On November 12th, invited by Prof. Viviana Mourino, co-organiser and Professor at Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, Prof. Boccaccini presented the invited talk titled: “Bioactive Materials in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications”, at the 8th Intern...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Slovak and Czech Glass Conference, held on 12-14 November in Trencin, Slovakia, under the topic: Innovation and sustainability in the glass industry. He presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses: From bone regeneration to biofabrication and ionic m...

On 12 November 2025, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini was conferred the Honorary Doctorate degree by Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín (TNUAD) in Slovakia. The conferral ceremony took place in Trenčín in the presence of the University Rector, Prof. Jozef Habánik, members of the TNUAD Scientific ...

On 10th November, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the “Argentine-German Science Day” at the Embassy of Argentina in Berlin. This event was organised in the frame of Berlin Science Week and Prof. Boccaccini attended in his capacity as Scientific Coordinator (Emeritus) of the Network of Argentine Sc...

We congratulate Julia Lemos de Oliveira, M. Sc., PhD dual degree student between our Institute (co-supervisor: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) at FAU and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil. Julia presented the poster titled “ENGINEERING BIOACTIVE 3D SCAFFOLDS: COMBINING PRECISION ARCHITE...

On 3rd November, Prof. Boccaccini presented (online) the invited talk: "Can we persuade the body to heal itself? The biomaterials answer" at the "Science of Impact 2025: Biomaterials & AI" event, held online and in presence at CONICET, IFLP (Physic Institute of La Plata), Universidad Nacional de...

On 27-29 October 2025, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited the Biomaterials & Biofabrication Lab (JagodaLab) at the Center for Advanced Technologies,  Adam Mickiewicz University,  Poznań (Poland), following an invitation of Assistant Professor  Jagoda Litowczenko - Cybulska. Prof. Boccaccini toured...

On 24th October 2025, our Institute participated actively at the Long Night of the Sciences in Erlangen. We presented a stand demonstrating 3D printing technologies for biomedical applications. In particular, we showed the advances of 3D printing of polymer biomaterials. Implants and scaffolds of di...

Congratulations to Paula Corcosa on successfully defending her doctoral thesis on 6th October 2025. She developed and characterized antimicrobial metal ion complexes which were embedded in electrospun biodegradable polymer fibers. Paula carried out her doctoral project at the University of Fribourg,...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting of the Advisory Board (AB) of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (“Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina”). The meeting was held on 24th October in Erlangen. Prof. Boccaccini has been a member of the AB of BAYLA...