The 1st Retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre CRC /SFB 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics" (EBM) took place on 21-22 September 2023 in Bad Windsheim. Mr Markus Lorke (PhD student on the project) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attened the meeting. The CRC benetifs from the expertise of engineers, p...
We congratulate Jonas Hazur for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled "Chemically and physically modified alginate-based bioinks for 3D biofabrication" on 16th December 2022. Jonas carried out his doctoral project in our Institute supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini in the framework o...
Ms Lisa Schöbel, currently PhD student in our Institute, has won the Best Master Thesis Award 2022 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM). Lisa carried out her Master thesis project on optimised and functionalised alginate based hydrogels for Biofabrication, within project B06 of the Collabor...
On 29-30 July 2019, we received the visit of Prof. Rainer Bader, Dr. Anika Jonitz-Heinke and Ms Franziska Jahn (PhD student), from Orthopedic Medical Center and Polyclinics, University Medicine Rostock, University of Rostock. We have currently several collaborations with Prof. Bader's group includin...
On 20-24 May 2019, we received the visit of Ms Alina Weizel, PhD student at University of Rostock, in the group of Prof. Hermann Seitz, Chair for Microfluidics. Ms Weizel visited also the research group of Dr. Silvia Budday (pictured with Ms Weizel and Prof. Boccaccini) at the FAU Chair of Applied M...
Our Institute was well represented at the 5th European Symposium and Exhibition of Biomaterials and Related Areas (Euro BioMAT 2019), held in Weimar, Germany, on 8-9 May 2019. Prof. Boccaccini is a member of the scientific committee of EuroBiomat conference series, which is chaired by Prof. Klaus Ja...
Prof. Dietmar Hutmacher, Distinguished Professor and Chair in Regenerative Medicine, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), visited the FAU Bioresearch Centre on 19th February 2019, where he visited the laboratories and research facilities of the Institute of Bi...
On 21-23 January 2019 Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials, and Chair, FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering), https://www.ww.tf.fau.de/ hosted a delegation of students from the School of Engineering, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with sponsorship of t...
Prof. Barbara Nebe, Head of Cell Biology Division, Medical Centre of the University of Rostock, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 21st January 2019. We are currently collaborating with Prof. Nebe's research group in the field of cell-material interactions in the framework of the Collaborative...
On 10-11 December 2018 we received the visit of Prof. Sandra Van Vlierberghe, Polymer Chemistry & Biomaterials Group, Faculty of Sciences, University of Gent, Belgium.
Prof. Van Vlierberghe was an invited speaker at the Institute of Biomaterials hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The title ...
