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On 17-25 July 2023 we received the visit of Prof. Dachamir Hotza, from the Chemical Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), coordinator from the Brazilian side of our collaborative project “Ph.D. with Double Degree UFSC-FAU”, which is funded by the Research Foundation of...

The end of the Summer Term 2023 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials, which took place on 17th July 2023. Most members of the Institute, including our academic visitors and students, in addition to PhD students, post-docs and permanent staff, attended this cele...

On 18th July 2023, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the invited seminar (online) "Bioactive glass containing composites" at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, following an invitation of Prof. Gigliola Lusvardi. We are currently collab...

On 11th July, Prof. Host Fischer, head of the Chair of Dental Prosthetics, Implantology, and Biomaterials, at RWTH Aachen University Hospital, visited our Institute and gave an invited presentation in the framework of the Materials Science Colloquium in Summer Term 2023 of the FAU Department of Mate...

The final meeting of the 3-year research project "Development of electrophoretic co-deposition of bioactive and antibacterial ceramics with biodegradable polymers to produce novel composite coatings for biomedical applications” (EPD BioCoat) took place online on 11th  July 2023. Ms Zoya Hadzhieva (P...

Our Institute was well represented at the XVIII Conference of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS 2023), held on 2-6 July 2023 in Lyon, France. Marcela Arango-Ospina, Zoya Hadzhieva (PhD students) presented the results of their projects (oral presentations). Prof. Boccaccini was the lead co-organise...

Will Nedin and Kurt Foster, PhD students at School of Pharmacy & Bioengineering, Keele University, UK, supervised by Prof. Peter Ogrodnik, visited our Institute on 27th June. We are planning to strengthen the collaboration between our Institute, and our University in general, with the colleagues...

On 26-29 June 2023 PhD students Faina Bider, Zhiyan Xu and Jonas Roeder travelled to Riga, Latvia, to develop the in site training workshop on Advanced Drug Delivery & Drug Targeting as part of your on-going collaboration with the EU funded Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE). The wo...

Mateo Villavicencio and Ezequiel Agliano are the Master students from National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, in the framework of the student exchange I.DEAR program (Ingenieure Deutschland – Argentina) in Materials Science and Engineering. They have started their academic term at F...

The progress meeting of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) (ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL & ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATING PLATFORM)  took place online on 23rd June 2023. Ms Zoya Hadzhieva, Mr Muhammad Asim Akhtar (PhD students) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (principal investigator) attended the meet...