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Usanee Pantulap, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials (supervisor: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) won the second prize of the best poster/video competition at the Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) Ceramics 2022, which was held online on 7-9 March 2022. Usanee presented a poster a...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the co-organiser TOPIC 06 “Ceramics for Healthcare”, with Prof. Dusan Galusek (Univ. of Trencin, Slokakia), and co-chaired the respective sessions in the framework of the CERAMICS 2022 conference http://www.2021.dkg.de/info/home/en, the 97th Annual Meeting of the German ...

Many international researchers, collaborators, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students have selected our Institute to carry out their research projects in this winter-spring term 2022. They are working on a wide variety of biomaterial topics, including biopolymer-bioactive glass composites ...

The "Research in Progress" meeting of the ITN-EJD network PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR (P4FIT)  (EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020) took place online on 25th Feb. 2022. All early career researchers (ESRs) members of the network participated and presented the latest results achieved. ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the online meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held on 24th February 2022. Prof. Boccaccini serves in the ESB Council as ESB vice-president and as officer (liaison) for the ESB Young Scientists Forum (YSF) . The next important ESB e...

At the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN), held online on 22nd February 2022 in Brussels, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was reelected coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof. C. Hellmich, Technical Un...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), chaired by FEMS president Prof. Anna Zervaki, which took place online on 23rd February 2022.  Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials Society...

2022 has been declared the Year of Glass by the United Nations, with the goal to increase awareness of the importance of glass in numerous fields, such as industrial, economic, cultural and in scientific research. Several activities are planed in Erlangen to celebrate the UN Year of Glass, wit...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head, Institute of Biomaterials at FAU, will receive an honorary doctorate from Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Prof. Boccaccini is conferred the title of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in recognition of his successful research in biomaterials and his collaboration w...

Prof. Boccaccini will be an invited, keynote or plenary speaker at several conferences in 2022. He will present an invited talk about bioactive glasses in tissue engineering at the II Workshop for Young Researchers in Ceramics and Glasses for Medical Applications  Y-CGMED in Madrid, Spain. He will b...