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Visiting the group of Prof. Shin at the Hanyang University and Prof Hwang at Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea (NOV 2023).
December 16, 2023 11:44 amAmin, as part of the ULB delegation, visited several universities in South Korea, including a visit to Prof. Shin’s lab at the Department of Bioengineering, Hanyang University, and the lab of Prof. Hwang at the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, SNU in November 2023. These labs are
Graduation day 2023
October 14, 2023 6:31 pmToday, October 11th, was the graduation day when Lucia (MSc), Quentin (MSc), and Hafez (PhD) from the lab obtained their degrees. I am very proud to have had the chance to work with these wonderful people.
Visiting the group of Prof. Savouji at the University of Montreal in Quebec Canada.
October 14, 2023 6:11 pmAmin visited the lab of Prof. Savouji at the Faculty of Medicine – Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Montreal in Quebec Canada (17 to 23 Sept 2023). Thanks to Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) and Fonds de Recherche du Québec Santé (FRQS) for their financial support
Attending Greenering Entrepreneurship course in Caparica, Portugal.
October 14, 2023 5:58 pmHafez and Parinaz, from our lab, attended the third Greenering Entrepreneurship course in Caparica, Portugal, (26th and 28th of September 2023) and presented their idea on tissue adhesive materials from waste wool.
Pejman, our Ph.D. candidate received the Gustave Boël – Sofina Fellowships
July 5, 2023 9:58 pmMr Pejman Ghaffari, Ph.D. candidate of our lab was awarded the prestigious Gustave Boël – Sofina Fellowship (2023) to go to McGill University, Canada as a visiting student for 9-12 months!. to learn more about this fellowship see: https://www.fwo.be/en/news/calls/gustave-bo%C3%ABl-sofina-fellowships/
Attending event Young Researchers on stage: International Meeting of Young Researchers – INNOGLY & GLYCONanoPROBES
April 23, 2023 7:56 pmWe attended the event Young Researchers on stage: International Meeting of Young Researchers – INNOGLY & GLYCONanoPROBES which was held in the beautiful city of Iasi in Romania (20-21 April 2023). Julia, Pejman and Parinaz, and I had oral presentations and Pejman won the best oral presentation award
Attending 9th Belgian Symposium on Tissue Engineering 2nd and 3rd of December 2022
December 3, 2022 8:50 pmThe night before we decided to meet the next morning at the central station. Brussels central train station at 6:45. It was a dark cold morning and the station was not busy when I arrived around 6:30. Saw Parinaz by the ticket vending machine from far, she was very busy touching the screen, seems like
FNRS-FNR (South Africa) joint project
November 15, 2022 9:53 amAs a part of our collaborative project on apple pomace valorization with the Durban University of Technology and the University of Cape Town, Amin visited the team of Prof Musonge and prof Ojumu. Thanks to FNRS for providing financial support!
Julia did a Short Term Scientific Missions at CEMEX, Romania
September 20, 2022 9:56 pmIn September 2022, Julia visited the CEMEX lab at Iasi university in Romania and learned more about in vivo and in vitro techniques, thanks to Dr Dodi and her team. this mission was funded by an STSM, thanks to COST action (CA 18103 Innogly)
ESB 2022, bordeaux : Masoud attended from our lab
September 20, 2022 8:02 amMasoud attended ESB 2022 in Bordeaux presenting his work on novel polysaccharides derived from yeast and bacteria which can be interesting alternatives to commonly used alginate to design hydrogel biomaterials.
Attending 2nd Greenering Entrepreneurship Course, Valladolid
September 18, 2022 2:16 pmSept 2022, Hafez attended the 2nd Greenering Entrepreneurship Course, Valladolid, Spain
Attending Regmed Europe
June 14, 2022 5:30 pmLei, Maryam, Julia and Feza attended Regmed Europe – The 2nd edition of the European Biomaterials & Regenerative Medicine Matchmaking event. 3rd June, 2022 – Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
Strengthening the collaboration with the group of Professor Petri, USP, Brazil
March 28, 2022 9:20 pmAmin visited the chemical institute, University of Sao Paulo, the team of Professor Petri, to further develop and strengthen our ongoing collaboration. This ongoing project between the two teams on bioactive peptide grafted biomaterials is funded by FNRS-FAPESP.
Mr. Jafari, our Ph.D. candidate received the Gustave Boël – Sofina Fellowships
February 24, 2021 1:11 pmHafez, Ph.D. candidate of our lab was awarded the prestigious Gustave Boël – Sofina Fellowship (2021) to go to the University of Waterloo, Canada as a visiting student for 9-12 months!. to learn more about this fellowship see: https://www.fwo.be/en/news/calls/gustave-bo%C3%ABl-sofina-fellowships/
A new bioprinter for the lab
July 18, 2020 10:30 am14-16 of July 2020 we had installation and training of a new bioprinter, (Bioscaffolder 3.2 from GeSim). the system is equipped with a piezo pipette, melt electrowetting module, and heated cartridges for printing diverse range materials.
FNRS-FAPESP bilateral project fund
May 1, 2020 4:15 pmThe lab was granted an FNRS-FAPESP bilateral project fund, fostering collaboration between the BioMatter and the team of Prof. Catalani and Prof. Petri at university of São Paulo
Mission in Nordic countries
April 25, 2020 2:45 amAs a part of the Belgian delegation organized by Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), Amin participated in a mission in Nordic countries (Denmark and Norway) to foster collaboration and create new synergies.
Mission in Brazil
March 1, 2020 4:15 pmAmin as a part of the Belgian delegation organized by Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) participated in a mission in Brazil with the program in Sao Paulo (USP), Rio de Janeiro (INT), and Brasilia (Embrapa) and with the objective to strengthen existing scientific collaborations and create new synergies
Collaboration with Biobased materials group, KIT
August 21, 2019 4:11 pmAmin visited Prof. Aoki at the Biobased materials lab at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.
Research training
August 21, 2019 3:53 pmHafez, our Ph.D. student, attended training in vitro/ in vivo course at the CEMEX center at the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi, Romania.