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We are happy to welcome Dr. Öznur Demir-Oguz and Mr. Abhishek Indurkar, researchers at the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE), based in Riga, Latvia, for their period of research training in our Institute. Dr. Öznur Demir-Oguz from Rudolfs Cimdins Riga Biomaterials Innovations and Devel...

We congratulate our former Master student Laura Schmidt who received the Best Master Thesis Award 2021 of the _German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM) at the Annual Meeting 2021 of the DGBM, which was held online on 7-8 October 2021.  She received the prize for her thesis titled "Oxidized hyaluronic ...

Our Institute has a strong show at the Annual Meeting 2021 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM), which was held online on 7-8 October 2021. Prof. Boccaccini chaired the session "Functional Biomaterials I, Dr. Rainer Detsch gave an oral presentation in the "Biofabrication" session while Dr. ...

The article “Bioactive glass demonstrates potential in treating giant cell tumor of bone”, published in  the September 2021 issue of Ceramic Bulletin, the Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, features our recent scientic publication in Biomaterials: “Selective and caspase-independent cytotoxici...

Last week we said good-bye to Dr. Kai Zheng, a valuable member of our Institute for almost ten years, as PhD student, post-doctoral and associated researcher, who worked on many projects related to sol-gel derived bioactive glasses for drug delivery and tissue engineering. Kai will start his indepen...

On 23rd September 2021, Dr. Deepanjalee Dutta, affiliated with Institute for Biophysics in the group of Prof. Dr. Dorothea Brüggemann and at the DFG project "Micro-, meso- and macroporous nonmetallic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications" (MIMENIMA)  led by Prof. Kurosch Rezwan at University of B...

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. Eric Le Bourhis, which took place online on 21st September 2021.  Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials So...

Several members of our Institute attended The European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2021), held online on 13-17 September 2021. Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the scientific committee of EUROMAT 2021 as co-organiser of Symposium F1. He was also session chai...

The initiative “Girls and technology” (“Mädchen und Technik”)  of the Faculty of Engineering of FAU was held in the Institute of Biomaterials on 6-10 September 2021. 28 girls (Grades 7-12) participated in activities around the topic of “Electrospinning for wound dressing”. The girls received lecture...

The special issue devoted to the "Centre for Functional and Surface-functionalized glass (FUNGLASS)" has been published in Int. J. Appl. Glass Science Volume12, Issue 4 (Oct. 2021). The special issue, co-edited by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and principal investigators of the FunGlass centre (Profs. En...