Projekte

The latest Review Meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) project took place in Riga on 14th September 2022. We are grateful to the European Commission project and policy officers and to the external reviewers for their input for the further development of the BBCE centre. Pro...

On 6-8 June 2022, our Institute hosted in Erlangen two Workshops in the framework of our training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE), in Riga, Latvia, the EU funded project (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 857287). The titles of the workshops wer...

The Scientific event "Functionalized scaffolds for tissue engineering applications" was organised by Dr. Liliana Liverani and Prof. Also R. Boccaccini on 28-29 October 2021. This event was organised in the framework of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE)  and included 4x scientific p...

On 25-27 October 2021 we received the visit of Dr Agnese Brangule, Research group leader, Assistant professor, Riga Stradins University, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Riga, Latvia. The visit was performed in the framework of our collaboracion with the partners in the Baltic Biomaterials Ce...

*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...

A new EU consortium with participation of the Institute of Biomaterials (Principal Investigator: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) focusing on tendon regeneration has been awarded a 4.1 M€ grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovat...

In the framework of the DAAD PPP Greece project (project title: "Biodegradable osteoinductive scaffolds based on new functionalized polyesters, calcium silicate bioceramics and mesoporous nanocarriers, for bone tissue engineering"), in collaboration with the School of Dentistry, Department of Physic...

Our paper entitled “Novel approach for the assessment of ovarian follicles infiltration in polymeric electrospun patterned scaffolds”  has been accepted as contribution for the Special Collection “Open Biomaterials Research” in PLOS ONE, co-edited by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The paper is another im...

The progress meeting of project A01 ("Functionalised adhesive alginate-based hydrogels with controlled degradation behavior") within the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 225 "From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models" took place on 7th June 2019 at the Biophysics Grou...

Our paper entitled: "Ag modified mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles for enhanced antibacterial activity in 3D infected skin model", co-authors: Kai Zheng, Preethi Balasubramanian, Thomas E.Paterson, Rene Stein, Sheila MacNeil, Sonia Fiorilli, Chiara Vitale-Brovarone, Joanna Shepher and Aldo R...