Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented a main lecture at the Congress of the Italian Society of Biomaterials (SIB) held on 3-5 June 2015 in Ancona, Italy. The title of the presentation was: "Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering: Overview, Advances and Challenges". Prof. Boccaccini has been also invited t...
Prof. Dr. Gundula Schulze-Tanzil of the Institut für Anatomie, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Abteilung Nürnberg, Klinikum Nürnberg-Nord (Nuremberg Hospital), Nuremberg, visited our Institute on 21st May 2015. She presented the seminar: "Tissue-engineering based experimental approaches f...
The volume of Key Engineering Materials (vol. 654, 2015) containing papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition (Hernstein, Austria, 5-10 October 2014) (Chairman: Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been published: Key Engineering Materials, vol. 654, Electrophoretic Dep...
Our review paper:
Effect of Substrate Mechanics on Cardiomyocyte Maturation and Growth
Marwa Tallawi, Ranjana Rai, Aldo. R. Boccaccini, and Katerina E. Aifantis
Tissue Eng. Part B: Reviews 2015, 21(1): 157-165, written in collaboration with Prof. Katerina E. Aifantis, College of Engineering, Un...
Several papers co-authored by members of our Institute appear in the lists of "Top 25 Hottest Articles" released by Elsevier in which the 25 most downloaded articles in each journal on ScienceDirect are published. For the full year 2014, the following papers of our group are listed:
Current Opinion...
The special issue "Manufacturing meets Biofabrication", co-edited by Prof. Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, has been published in the journal Bionanomaterials. The goal of the special issue is to present current research and developme...
Mr Louis-Philippe Lefebvre, Team Leader at National Research Council Canada, Boucherville (Canada), visited our Institute on 20th April 2015. Mr Lefebvre and co-workers have developed an alternative interesting foaming technique to fabricate 45S5 bioactive glass scaffolds which provides scaffolds o...
Prof. Boccaccini is a member of the organizing committee of the Prof. Boccaccini is the co-organiser of Symposium 33: "Glasses and Ceramics for Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Treatment" together with Prof. Russell Hand, University of Sheffield, UK, at the 11th International Conference of Pacific Rim Ce...
In the framework of the project of Ms Y. Schroeder, Biomedical Engineering, Ansbach University of Applied Sciences co-supervised at our Institute by Dr. R. Detsch and Prof. Boccaccini, in the field of additive manufacturing of biodegradable polymer scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, Prof. Boccac...
The first joint scientific meeting between the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Trauma Centre, Ludwigshafen, was held on 18th March in Erlangen organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Several young researc...
