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We are pleased to announce the approval of funding through the Institute Partnership Program by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the research project with the Central Metallurgical Research & Development Institute (CMRDI), Egypt, entitled “Synergistic hybrid organic–inorganic coating st...

We are delighted to announce the recognition obtained by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini from the FAU Faculty of Engineering. He obtained 1st place across the entire Faculty of Engineering in the teaching evaluation by Master's students of the course "Biomaterials (Implant Materials)". Prof. Boccaccini sai...

The kick-off meeting of our project "Toward the design and customization of borate bioactive glasses, from fundamental composition–structure–property correlations to advanced 3D structures" (3Dboron4bone), was held online on 15th December 2025. This 3-year project was selected for funding by the NCN...

Congratulations to Vera Citro on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Nano-delivery to enhance stem cell/synthetic hybrid-based tendon regeneration protocol” on 12th December, 2025. Vera carried out her doctoral project at Keele University, UK, supervised by Prof. Nicholas Forsyth and ...

Our Research Unit FOR 5657 "BioAntiFatigue", funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation, gathered in Berlin on 9-10 December 2025 to discuss recent progress and future directions of the collaborative work on fatigue-resistant biological and bioinspired materials...

The progress meeting (M36) of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) (ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL & ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATING PLATFORM) took place on 9-10th December 2025. Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting in person in Vagos, Aveiro (Portugal) and online, respec...

The End-of-Year Meeting and Christmas Dinner of the Institute of Biomaterials were held on 11 December 2025. Permanent staff, PhD students, postdocs, undergraduate students, academic visitors, and guests attended the event. Prof. Boccaccini gave a presentation summarizing the main achievements and a...

Congratulations to Andrada-Ioana Damian-Buda, PhD student in our Institute, on being one of the winners of the 2025 Student Speech Contest of the Bioceramics Network (LINK: https://bioceramics.ecers.org/en/bi/home) of the EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, (LINK: https://ecers.org/en/ec/home ) held online la...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the 7th Scientific Symposium and Annual Meeting of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania), RCAA, held at the Embassy of Argentina in Berlin and in hybrid form on 4-5 December 2025. Prof. Boccaccini is the Scienti...

This year, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini marks 35 years of continuous membership of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM),  one of the largest technical societies for materials science and materials engineering in Europe. Prof. Boccaccini said: “I am proud of my continuous membership of DGM for ...