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*I.DEAR - Cooperation with Argentina for Master Students in its Seventh Year. *The cooperation program with National University of Mar del Plata in Argentina enters its seventh year. The program is supported *by I.DEAR (Ingenieure Deutschland-Argentinien)*  and enables Master students of Materials S...

Ms Seray Schmitz (née Kaya), who carried out her doctoral thesis at our Institute, under academic supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, and in collaboration with industrial partner Lucideon Ltd  UK, successfully defended her thesis on 25th August 2021.Her thesis entitled: “Ion doped mesoporous si...

Prof. Boccaccini has been appointed member of the Advisory Board of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America ("Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina") (Director: Prof. Andrea Pagni, FAU) for the period 2021-2024. Prof. Boccaccini said: "It is an honoured to have the opp...

On 3rd August 2021, we received the visit of Dr. Alejandra Omarini, Dr. Tetiana Zhuk from Institute of Food Chemistry and Food Biotechnology (AG Prof. Holger Zorn), University of Giessen, and and Mr Bernhard Hellmann (AG Prof. Holger Zorn, JLU and AG Prof. Gunter Eckert ; We are planing a research c...

Another training in the framework of the EU Funded (H2020) _FunGlass (Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass)_ (LINK: https://www.funglass.eu/ ) project has been completed at the Institute of Biomaterials in Erlangen. Ms Fulden Dogrul is a PhD student based at Alexander Dubcek Univer...

On 28th July 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the "International Webinars on Materials" organised by the associate laboratory CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, formerly CICECO-Centre for Research in Ceramics and Composite Materials, at University of Aveiro, Portugal, to...

On 28th July, Prof. Boccaccini was an invited lecturer at the seminar series of the Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics, Vellore Institute of Technology , India, invited by Prof. A. Joseph Nathanael and Prof. Dr. Geetha Manivasagam. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "B...

We congratulate Jennifer Hermann, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Synthesis and characterization of (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3 ferro-piezoelectric ceramics for bone tissue engineering" on 23rd July 2021. Jennifer carried out her doctoral project in co-tutelle (joint supervision), with ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the Editor-in-Chief of the "Biomaterials" Section  of the Open Access journal Materials for 8.5 years. He has now stepped down from this position and has joined the Advisory Board of the journal.  Prof. Boccaccini said: "It was an honor to serve in the editorial board of...

Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini are pleased with the acquisition of a new melt electrowriting (MEW) device at the Institute of Biomaterials. This facility is attached to one of the 3D bioprinters available in the tissue engineering laboratory of the Institute. Using biopolymers and co...