Projekte

  Congratulations to Florencia Diaz for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Novel porous natural-origin polymeric patches for rotator cuff tendon repair” on 5th May, 2025. Florencia carried out her doctoral project in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini in...

At the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN), held on 26th February 2025 in presence in Brussels and online, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was reelected coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof. C. Hellmi...

The first research in progress meeting of the Research Unit “Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue” (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue) in 2025 was organised by Dr. Irem Unalan and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Institute of Biomaterials, FAU. It took place on 25th February with participation of all members of the Resea...

During the visit of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva to the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), an important meeting with members of the FunGlass Department of Biomaterials, led by Dr. Martin  Michálek, was organized on 19th February 2025 with the partic...

The Review Meeting of the FunGlass  H2020 EU Teaming project (grant agreement Nº739566) was held at University of Trencin, Slovakia, on 17-19th February 2025, chaired by the director of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Prof. Dušan Galusek. The meeting was attend...

Co-organised by Dr. Martin Michálek  (Head of Biomaterials Department, FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the 2nd Biomaterials Research Day of the Department of Biomaterials at FunGlass Center was held on 12th February 2025 in hybrid form. This scientific symposium inc...

The Grand Opening of the new building and premises of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE) (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 857287) in Riga, Latvia, took place on 20th January 2025. The building is placed in the Riga Technical University (RTU) student campus in Ķīpsala. This modern b...

On 11-14 November, Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva and Marcela Arango Ospina (PhD student) attended the Funglass School in Vršatské Podhradie, Slovakia, organized by the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia (FunGlass EU project, 73956...

-6 November 2024, our Institute hosted the Workshop “Advanced drug delivery and drug targeting” in the framework of our training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE), in Riga, Latvia, EU-funded project (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 857287). The ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Final Meeting of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project P4FiT (“PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR”), held in Helsinki, Finland on 6-8 November 2024. In this meeting, all Early Stage Researchers (Ph.D. students) presented a summary of their proj...