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In July 2024, we are hosting Dr. Hana Kaňková from FunGlass – Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Trencin, Slovakia. Dr. Kaňková collaborates in many projects of our Institute, specially in the characterisation of the composition of bioactive glasses and their ion release kinetic...

On 27th June 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the plenary talk "Bioactive Glasses Meet 3D Bioprinting: Progress and Challenges" at the Symposium "3D (Bio)printing: The future of regenerative medicine", organised at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, National University of Buenos Aires...

On 25th June we received the visit of 10 Biomedical Engineering students from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia, led by Prof. Hernán Darío Vargas Cardona. The students attended presentations on biomaterials by Prof. A. R. Boccaccini, Dr. R. Detsch, Dr. Qaisar Nawaz and Dr. Irem ...

Congratulations to Leulseged Belay Addis for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “False Banana Fiber-Reinforced Alkali Activated Low-Calcium Fly Ash-based Geopolymer Composites: Development, Characterization, and Performance Evaluation” on 24th June 2024 at Bahir Dar University Institu...

As part of the DAAD funded project (Greek-German Cooperation, IKYDAAD) for the development of chitosan-based antimicrobial composite hydrogels (hydrogels with bioactive glass nanoparticles) for oral wound healing, Ms. Zhiyan Xu and Ms. Hannah Kissel (PhD students) visited our colleagues at Aristotle...

In the week of 17-21 June 2024 we received the visit of our colleagues from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece: Prof. Eleanna Kontonasaki (AUTh, Dental School) and Prof. Konstantinos Chrissafis (AUTh, School of Physics). The visit was in the framework of the DAAD (Greek-German coll...

The symposium "PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR " took place on 20th June 2024 at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. This symposium was organised in the frame of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project P4FiT ("PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION I...

A new meeting of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) was held online on 19th June 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. P...

On 18th June, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the online meeting of the Working Group "Bioceramics" (FG7) of the German Ceramic Society (DKG). The theme of the meeting was: "Dental ceramics: current situation and trends". Prof. Boccaccini was the chair of the Working Group "Ceramics in Medicine an...

We congratulate Muhammad Asim Akhtar for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “ADVANCES IN EPD FOR COATINGS AND SELF-STANDING STRUCTURES BASED ON BIOPOLYMERS AND BIOACTIVE GLASSES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS” on 14th June 2024. Asim carried out his doctoral project in our Institute supe...