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Our plans to collaborate with the research group of Prof. Marco C. Bottino at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, USA, have been realized with the first visit of our PhD student Ms. Hazel Simila. Hazel is spending two weeks in Prof. Bottino's lab carrying out focused cell biology and ant...

In the framework of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre CRC /SBF 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics (EBM) we have established a very effective collaboration with Dr. Renato Frischknecht, Department Biology, Chair of Animal Physiology (Prof. Dr. Brandstätter). Our collaboration with Dr. Frischk...

Dr. Saeid Kargozar, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, -Dallas TX, USA, was an invited speaker in the framework of the "Advances in Biomaterials" seminar in our Institute on 13th March 2023. Dr. Kargozar presented the talk (online): "Bioactive Glasses for Skin Wound Healing". The prese...

Our Institute was represented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) Keramik/Ceramics 2023 by Ms Marcela Arango-Ospina (PhD student), Ms Usanee Pantulap (PhD student), Ms Akrity Anand (PhD student, based at FunGlass Centre, Slovakia) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Also Dr.  Ra...

On 4th April 2022, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited  the Henry Royce Institute at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He was hosted by Dr. Jonny Blaker, Research Area Lead for Biomedical Materials at Henry Royce Institute, and Senior Lecturer in Biomaterials at The University of Manchester...

Several members of our Institute attended the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) European Chapter Meeting 2023 (TERMIS EU 2023), which was held in Manchester (UK) on the 28th to 31st March 2023. Sara Gil Cantero and Vera Citro, PhD students in EU ITN project ...

The Webinar "Biomaterials and Wound Healing" took place on 30th March 2023, hosted by the journal "Burns & Trauma". Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses as multifunctional materials for wound healing and soft tissue repair". The Webinar chairs were Prof. Gino Ambrosio (Nationa...

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR” (P4FIT) took place at University of Keele, UK, on 26-27 March 2023, organized by Prof. Nick Forsyth, University of Keele. All Early Career Researchers (PhD students) presented the ad...

At the spring retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 225 held on 22-24 March 2023 at “Schloss Schney”, Lichtenfels, Jonas Röder (PhD student in our Institute) was re-elected as the Erlangen PhD student’s representative. In a second election he furthermore was elected as the head-re...

The first retreat of 2023 of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models”, was held on 22-24 March 2023 in Lichtenfels. Hsuan-Heng Lu, Jonas Roeder (PhD students), Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (pictured) at...