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Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented a keynote lecture at the "3rd Conference on Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare" (BioMaH), which was held in Rome, Italy, on 18-21 October 2022. Prof. Boccaccini was one of the presidents of the conference, together with Dr. Mauro Alini (Switzerland)...

Many congratulations to Sonja Kuth, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials. Sonja received the best poster award at the 3rd Int. Conference on "Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare" (BioMaH), held in Rome, Italy, on 18-21 October 2022. She presented the poster: "Improving the p...

Zoya Hadzhieva, Marcela Arango Ospina and Prof. Aldo Boccaccini successfully organized the annual BBCE (Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence) summer school on scientific writing which took place in Erlangen from 10 to 14 October. This event is directed to early career researchers from differen...

Prof. Bikramjit Basu, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and current President of the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, India, received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award. Prof. Basu will spend six months at our Institute investigating innovate bioprinting...

Hsuan-Heng Lu, Jonas Roeder (PhD students), Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (pictured) attended the retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models”,  held on 10-12 October 2022 in Lichtenfels. Susanne ...

Representing our Institute, Dr. Rainer Detsch and PhD students Ms. Susanne Heid, Mr. Jonas Röder, and Ms. Hsuan-Heng Lu participated at the Biofabrication Conference 2022 (ISBF)  held in Montecatini Terme, Italy, on 25-28 September 2022. Dr. Rainer Detsch and Ms. Susanne Heid gave oral presentations...

Hazel Simila, a second year PhD candidate in our institute and recipient of a DAAD scholarship, took part in the “Academy of Dental Materials (ADM) Annual Conference", which took place in Athens, Greece from September 28- October 1, 2022. The theme of the symposium was “Progress In Dental Materials ...

Prof. Eleana Kontosaki and Dr. Georgia Pouroutzidou from School of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, visited the Institute of Biomaterials from 4.10 to 11.10.2022 in the framework of the DAAD-funded project (Greek-German collaboration, IKYDAAD) entitled “Innovative ultrafast i...

The "Aldo R. Boccaccini 60th Birthday Symposium" organized by the FAU Institute of Biomaterials was successfully held on 6th October 2022. The scientific symposium celebrated the 60th birthday of the Head of Institute, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, and his contributions to materials science and biomater...

Our Institute had an active contribution to the success of the Materials Science and Engineering MSE Congress (MSE 2022) held in Darmstadt, Germany, and in hybrid format on 27 - 29 September 2022, a DGM (German Materials Society) conference. Prof. Boccaccini was a coordinator of the Topic "Biomateri...