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Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the online 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 on 28th June 2021.  Prof. Boccaccini represents the German Materials Society (DGM) in the F...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the First Virtual Forum of AUGM (Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo)  and BAYLAT (Bavarian University Centre for Latin America) on "Parameters of Excellence and Quality in Higher Education Institutions" held on 24th June 2021. AUGM is a ne...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 14th International Conference on Solid State Chemistry (SSC 2021) hosted by Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín (Slovakia), chaired by Prof. Dusan Galusek, and held online on 14-17 June 2021. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Ion doped...

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) <https://www.fau.de/> tops the list of German universities in the category “Citations per Faculty”, according the the latest edition of the prestigious “QS World University Rankings(R) 2022”. In this important category that indicates the impact of the...

The Senate and Approval Committee for Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the meeting held on May 20-21, 2021 approved*a second funding period of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1270 "Electrically Active Implants" –ELAINE* . SFB 1270 ELAINE is based ...

The second research in progress meeting of the international project “Development and characterization of drug free bioactive glass nanoparticles for biomedical applications” funded by the British Council under the Pakistan-UK Education Gateway scheme took place online on 11th June 2021. In addition...

A group of researchers from the Institute of Biomaterials (WW/) (Dr. Samira Tansaz, former PhD student, Dr. Rainer Detsch, and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) were part of the international team "Protein-based lighting" that has won the 2021 Materials Chemistry Division Horizon Prize: Stephanie L Kwolek A...

We congratulate Florian Ruther for successfully defending his doctoral thesis entitled “Development and characterization of a multi-layer patch with improved electrical stimulus transmission and self-regulating elastic properties for application in cardiac tissue engineering” on 4th June 2021. He ca...

The INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROCESSING & MANUFACTURING OF ADVANCED MATERIALS (THERMEC'2021) took place online on 2-5 June 2021. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered the keynote presentation entitled: "Biofabrication with composite bioinks: emerging approaches and challenges" in the session Adv...

Even with the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students have found their way to our Institute to carry out their research projects on a wide variety of biomaterial topics, including 3D printing, electrospinning, biopolymer-bioac...