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Amin, 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

Today, 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.

Amin 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

Hafez 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.

We 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

The 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

As 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!

In 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)

Masoud 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.

Sept 2022, Hafez attended the 2nd Greenering Entrepreneurship Course, Valladolid, Spain

Lei, 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

Amin 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.