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New Open Access Publication: Multifunctional Hybrid Sponges for Bone Tissue Engineering

New Open Access Publication: Multifunctional Hybrid Sponges for Bone Tissue Engineering

New Open Access Publication: Multifunctional Hybrid Sponges for Bone Tissue Engineering A multidisciplinary and multicultural research team led by Dr. Zulema Vargas, Department of Biomaterials, has published a new open access article in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (Elsevier). The study, titled “Multifunctional hybrid chitosan/κ-carrageenan sponges integrating engineered SBA-15@Fe₃O₄ composites and nano-hydroxyapatite for bone [...]

vmokranova2026-03-11T10:58:04+01:00March 11th, 2026|

Strengthening International Collaboration: Dr. Alfredo Sanchez Visits Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Strengthening International Collaboration: Dr. Alfredo Sanchez Visits Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Strengthening International Collaboration: FunGlass Researcher Visits Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Our researcher Dr. Alfredo Sanchez from the VILA department recently completed a two-week Erasmus researcher visit to Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, where he had the privilege of working with Prof. Alfonso Pedone and Dr. [...]

vmokranova2026-03-06T10:48:21+01:00March 6th, 2026|

FunGlass at the Biomedical Centre Martin Seminar

FunGlass at the Biomedical Centre Martin Seminar

FunGlass at the Biomedical Centre Martin Seminar On 3 March 2026, FunGlass had the pleasure of participating in the Seminar of the Biomedical Centre Martin at the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin. During the seminar, Dr. Martin Michálek, Head of our Department of Biomaterials, presented our recent research entitled “1393B3 Bioactive Glass [...]

vmokranova2026-03-04T14:59:19+01:00March 4th, 2026|

Strengthening Scientific Collaboration within the DS FR 24 0014 (GeSeB) Project

Strengthening Scientific Collaboration within the DS FR 24 0014 (GeSeB) Project

Strengthening Scientific Collaboration within the DS FR 24 0014 (GeSeB) Project As part of the DS FR 24 0014 project (GeSeB – Synthesis, Laser Modification and Surface Phenomena of Chalcogenide, Oxyselenide and Oxide Glasses and Thin Films), Peter Kutálek, PhD, and Jan Smolík, PhD, from the University of Pardubice visited the FunGlass at [...]

vmokranova2026-02-27T11:39:31+01:00February 27th, 2026|

PhD Defence Success and Double Degree Achievement of Ertugrul Varlik

PhD Defence Success and Double Degree Achievement of Ertugrul Varlik

PhD Defence Success and Double Degree Achievement of Ertugrul Varlik We are pleased to announce that on February 12, 2026, our PhD student MSc. Ertugrul Varlik successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Advanced Manufacturing of 3D Scaffolds Using Bioactive Glass for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications.” Ertugrul is a co-tutelle PhD student and will [...]

vmokranova2026-02-26T15:08:47+01:00February 26th, 2026|

Visit from the University of Gdańsk to the FunGlass Research Centre

Visit from the University of Gdańsk to the FunGlass Research Centre

Visit from the University of Gdańsk to the FunGlass Research Centre We were pleased to welcome representatives from the University of Gdańsk, the Institute of Nanotechnology and Materials Engineering, Dr. hab. Eng. Natalia Wójcik and Zuzanna Milewczyk, a PhD student in Materials Engineering, to the FunGlass Research Centre. During their two-week visit, our [...]

vmokranova2026-02-25T15:53:58+01:00February 25th, 2026|

Strengthening Innovation Links: Our Team at the EU Cohesion Policy Seminar in Brno

Strengthening Innovation Links: Our Team at the EU Cohesion Policy Seminar in Brno

Strengthening Innovation Links: Our Team at the EU Cohesion Policy Seminar in Brno Our tech transfer specialists Eva Dušička and Andrej Dočár participated in the workshop “Innovation Supported by the EU Cohesion Policy Funds in the Czechia and Slovakia” in Brno. It is no coincidence that the innovation seminar took place in Brno, [...]

vmokranova2026-02-24T13:03:21+01:00February 24th, 2026|

GlaCerHub Presented at the Workshop on Opportunities for Cities and Regions in Horizon Europe

GlaCerHub Presented at the Workshop on Opportunities for Cities and Regions in Horizon Europe

GlaCerHub Presented at the Workshop on Opportunities for Cities and Regions in Horizon Europe On 10 February 2026, the GlaCerHub project was presented at the online workshop “Opportunities for Cities and Regions in the Horizon Europe Programme,” organised by the Technology Centre Prague in cooperation with the National Office for Horizon Europe at [...]

vmokranova2026-02-20T10:57:35+01:00February 18th, 2026|

FunGlass Launches New Industry Partnership with BRICOL s. r. o.

FunGlass Launches New Industry Partnership with BRICOL s. r. o.

FunGlass Launches New Industry Partnership with BRICOL s. r. o. At FunGlass we value cooperation between researchers and industry. We cooperate with companies from various parts of Slovakia and around the world, and we are very pleased when companies from our own region contact us as well. Recently we have started new cooperation [...]

vmokranova2026-02-19T13:03:15+01:00February 17th, 2026|

FunGlass Showcases Strategic Funding Synergies at widerAdvance Mutual Learning Event

FunGlass Showcases Strategic Funding Synergies at widerAdvance Mutual Learning Event

FunGlass Showcases Strategic Funding Synergies at widerAdvance Mutual Learning Event On 11 February 2026, Prof. Dušan Galusek, Director of the FunGlass Centre of Excellence at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, represented Slovakia at the Mutual Learning Event on Synergies for Knowledge Valorisation organized within the widerAdvance Facility in Prague. The event brought together leading European [...]

vmokranova2026-02-18T15:39:54+01:00February 15th, 2026|

New Open Access Publication: Multifunctional Hybrid Sponges for Bone Tissue Engineering

Strengthening International Collaboration: Dr. Alfredo Sanchez Visits Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

FunGlass at the Biomedical Centre Martin Seminar

Strengthening Scientific Collaboration within the DS FR 24 0014 (GeSeB) Project

PhD Defence Success and Double Degree Achievement of Ertugrul Varlik

Visit from the University of Gdańsk to the FunGlass Research Centre

Strengthening Innovation Links: Our Team at the EU Cohesion Policy Seminar in Brno

GlaCerHub Presented at the Workshop on Opportunities for Cities and Regions in Horizon Europe

FunGlass Launches New Industry Partnership with BRICOL s. r. o.

FunGlass Showcases Strategic Funding Synergies at widerAdvance Mutual Learning Event

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