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We congratulate Lisa Kiesewetter who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Technologies for Vascularized Skin Equivalents to Study Cutaneous Wound Healing in Vitro” on 7th December 2020. Lisa carried out her doctoral project at University Hospital Würzburg, Chair for Tissue Engineering...

During the winter term 2020/2021 we are hosting numerous international visitors, despite the limitations and restrictions imposed by the COVID-19, including senior researchers, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students, e.g. Erasmus exchange students. They have chosen our Institute to carry o...

On 4th December 2020, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the 3rd International Rhine Round Table "Frontiers on Advanced Ceramic Materials",  a joint initiative of the Germany chapter of the American Ceramic Society and the MRS/e-MRS  International Chapter. The online meeting, which attracted more tha...

We congratulate Abirami (Abi) Sengottuvelan who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Bioactivation of titanium dioxide scaffolds by functionalization and coating approaches” on 30th November 2020. Abi carried out her doctoral project in our Institute supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccac...

Dr. Liliana Liverani and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini organized the first edition of the BBCE Summer School 2020 (23-27 November 2020), which tool place remotely. The Summer School, focused on scientific writing and publishing, is an annual event organized by the Institute of Biomaterials (FAU) as advan...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) has been appointed Editor for the Section "Biomaterials for life science and healthcare" in the new Open Access European Journal of Materials. The journal was launched recently by Taylor&Francis and is published on behalf of the Federatio...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the (remote) 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 24th November 2020. FEMS is a not-for profit association of European materials socie...

The highly cited review paper "Bone tissue engineering therapeutics: controlled drug delivery in three-dimensional scaffolds" (J. R. Soc. Interface 7 (2010), 209–227) was written when Prof. Boccaccini was at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London and Prof. Viviana Mouriño (Department o...

On 17th Nov. 2020, Prof. Edgar Zanotto, Prof. of Glass Science and Technology, Head of the Vitreous Materials Laboratory, Univ. of Sao Carlos, Brazil, was the invited speaker at the Materials Science Colloquium of the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The colloquium was hosted by ...

On 16th November 2020, Prof. Lobat Tayebi, Marquette University School of Dentistry presented an invited seminar at the Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, entitled: "Topics on Biomaterials and 3D Printing in Regenerative Medicine". Prof. Tayebi presented an overview of ve...