On 28th August 2015 Yaping Ding successfully defended her doctoral thesis that she carried out in the field of electrospun polymer-inorganic hybrid and composite scaffolds for tissue engineering. Yaping was supervised by Dr. Judith A. Roether and Professor Dirk W. Schubert at the Institute of Polyme...
On 28th August 2015 Luis Cordero-Arias successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Electrophoretic deposition of organic/inorganic composite coatings on metallic substrates for bone replacement applications: mechanisms and development of new bioactive materials based on polysaccharides", ca...
Prof. Boccaccini visited several institutions during his stay in San Rafael, Argentina. He visited the Regional Faculty of Universidad Tecnologica Nacional where he talked to undergraduate engineering students about his research activities in the field of biomaterials. He also held meetings with col...
The first series of papers belonging to the inaugural volume (Vol. 1, 2015) of the Open Access-Only journal BIOMEDICAL GLASSES has been published. The inaugural volume will contain 20x papers and it is expected to be published in full before the end of the year. The editor in chief of Biomedical Gla...
In the framework of our collaborations with the Advanced Materials Engineering Laboratory and the Chair for Functional Materials at the University of Saarland, led by Prof. Frank Mücklich, Mr Federico Lasserre (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) visited our Institute on 3-4 August 2015. The collaborati...
Prof. Boccaccini will serve in the editorial board of the new international journal Biomanufacturing Reviews. The journal is published by Springer in the Biomedical Engineering section and the editor-in-chief is Prof. Paulo J.d. Silva Bartolo (Univ. of Manchester, UK). Biomanufacturing Reviews will ...
On 29th July 2015 Wei Li successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "45S5 Bioactive Glass-Based Composite Scaffolds with Polymer Coatings for Bone Tissue Engineering Therapeutics", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Boccaccin...
On 28th July 2015 Qiang Chen successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Electrophoretic Deposition of Composite Coatings with Bioactive Character and Drug Delivery Capability", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition of Prof. Boccaccini, ...
Dr. Begoña Ferrari, Tenured Scientist at Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (ICV), CSIC, Madrid, Spain, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 27-29 July 2015. Dr. Ferrari leads a research program on Colloidal Processing at ICV, including broad research activities in the field of electrophoretic depos...
On 22nd July 2015 Bapi Sarker successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Advanced Hydrogels Concepts Based on Combinations of Alginate, Gelatin and Bioactive Glasses for Tissue Engineering", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition of Prof...
