News

The Scientific event "Functionalized scaffolds for tissue engineering applications" was organised by Dr. Liliana Liverani and Prof. Also R. Boccaccini on 28-29 October 2021. This event was organised in the framework of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE)  and included 4x scientific p...

On 25-27 October 2021 we received the visit of Dr Agnese Brangule, Research group leader, Assistant professor, Riga Stradins University, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Riga, Latvia. The visit was performed in the framework of our collaboracion with the partners in the Baltic Biomaterials Ce...

With fewer restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic to travel, many international researchers, collaborators, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students have selected our Institute to carry out their research projects in this WS 21/22, on a wide variety of biomaterial topics, including el...

At the digital science event G'scheid schlau, Dr. Rainer Detsch presented the talk entitled "3D printing of tissue and organs: opportunities, challenges and limitations" during the event series "Technology of today for medicine of tomorrow - an interactive panel discussion with experts from FAU". Th...

In the context of our participation as international partner in the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE),  a Horizon 2020 EU funded Teaming project, Dr. Liliana Liverani and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini organised the second edition of the Summer School on 18-22 October 2021, on "Scientific wr...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a plenary speaker at the "Encuentro de Investigadores y Docentes de Ingeniería" (XI EnIDI ),  held online on 20th October 2021 and hosted by National University of Technology (UTN), Regional Faculty San Rafael, ( Argentina. He shared the plenary session with his brother,...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a keynote speaker at the BioMaH "Biomaterials and Novel Technologies for Healthcare" Online Workshop held on 19th October 2021. He presented the talk "50 Years of Bioactive Glasses: from Bone Substitution to Tissue Engineering". Prof. Boccaccini was also one the presiden...

We congratulate Lena Vogt for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Development and Characterization of Biopolymer-Based Fibrous Scaffolds with Enhanced Functionality for Cardiac Tissue Engineering” on 15th October 2021. She carried out her doctoral project in our Institute supervised b...

The first general meeting of the Institute of Biomaterials in the Winter Term 21/22 took place online on 14th October 2021, with almost 100 attendees, including research and teaching staff, post-doctoral researchers, PhD students, undergraduate students and international visitors. Prof. Boccaccini, ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, has been elected Vice-president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Prof. Boccaccini represents the German Materials Socienty (DGM) in the Executive Committee of FEMS since 2016...