P4FIT

Congratulations to Halldór Kárason on successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “Towards wearable biomechanics: Development of a nanocomposite sensor and physics-informed neural networks for muscle-tendon force estimation” on 5th August, 2025. Hálldor carried out his doctoral project at the ...

Congratulations to Sara Gil Cantero on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Immune risk management of biomimetic scaffolds” on 29th July, 2025. Sara carried out her doctoral project at Medical University Vienna (MUV), Austria, supervised by Prof. Johannes Stoeckel, at the MUV Institute...

  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...

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...

The symposium "PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR " took place on 20th June 2024 at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. This symposium was organised in the frame of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project P4FiT ("PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION I...

Prof. Hélder A. Santos, Head of the Department of Biomaterials and Biomedical Technology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Director and Head of the Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering Lab, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland, visi...

The Winter School 2024 of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR” (P4FIT) took place in Seefeld, Austria, on 17-20 January 2024, organized by Prof.  Johannes Stöckl Medical University of Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with Prof. Helder Santos (P...

The Innovation Workshop of the EU ITN P4FiT PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR (EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020) took place on 12-13 November 2023 in Amsterdam. The Workshop discussed innovations in the field of tendon repair strategies based on results achieved by the PhD students membe...