The Department of Biomaterials

Erik Reimhult and Guruprakash Subbiahdoss were hosts when Hanna and Petter from Department of Biomaterials and Alejandro and Janne from Oral Research Laboratory visited the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

Department of Biomaterials attended a consensus meeting that focused on the biological principles and biomaterials used in restoring missing bone tissue in the oral cavity.

Department of Biomaterials has partnered with OsloMet in the Horizon 2020 project MgSafe that kicked off in Hamburg last week.

Dental biomaterials expert Jukka Pekka Matinlinna visited the Biomaterials lab for a collaborative meeting.

Maziar Ghadakchi Shabestari has publicly defended his doctoral dissertation Bone marrow lesions in osteoarthritis: role of angiogenesis and bone turnover. Department of Biomaterials congratulates Maziar on his great achievement!

Jean-Baptiste Sourbets from Polytech Nantes joined our group this summer to investigate the effect of cation doping on TiO 2 scaffold properties.

This year has brought our department some good luck with our EU grant proposals and we are now part of two new European collaboration projects - MgSafe project is now hiring PhD candidates.

Øystein Stakkestad has publicly defended his doctoral dissertation The role of ameloblastin in mesenchymal tissues. Department of Biomaterials congratulates Øystein on his great achievement!

Marc Amrit Schober from University of North Texas joined our group this summer to learn a bit more about biomaterials and cell biology.

Javier Sanz Esporrin from Complutense University of Madrid joined our group for three months to learn more about micro- and nanoCT imaging.

Department of Biomaterials travelled to ScSB2018 meeting to see Professor Lyngstadaas receive the prestigious ScSB Award

Francisco Romero Gavilán from Universitat Jaume I in Spain joined our group for three months to learn more about protein adsorption on biomaterials.

Krzysztof Wrzesinski from CelVivo gave us a detailed introduction to 3D cell culture methods

Department of Biomaterials hosted an international symposium on x-ray tomography techniques.

David Wiedmer has publicly defended his doctoral dissertation TiO 2 dark catalysis in biomedical applications. Department of Biomaterials congratulates David on his great achievement!

Thao Ha from Hanover joined our group for four months to work on her master thesis and she thoroughly enjoyed her stay in Oslo.

Department of Biomaterials hosted two seminars on nanostructured biomaterials and biosensor applications based on nanotechnology.

Biomaterials hosts an open seminar on bone-anchored implants and the ramifications of increasing antimicrobial resistance on implant-related infections.

Our department showed a strong presence at the 2nd International Symposium on Bioinspired Macromolecular Systems in Aveiro.

After a long wait, our brand new nanoCT scanner is up and running!

September brought us even more reasons to celebrate at Biomaterials.

September started with big celebration for science at the Biomaterials lab.

While most people were enjoying their summer holidays by the beach, our lab did not quiet down thanks to our three hard-working student researchers.

Group of enthusiastic biomaterials researchers and microbiologists joined their forces last week to discuss the future challenges related to implantable medical devices in the world without antibiotics.