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In collaboration with University of Liège, the department has received a grant from ITI Foundation to investigate peri-implant soft tissue integration in humans

After a long wait, the sun is shining on us again and our lab is getting back to more or less normal activity over the summer. 

Gaute and co-workers made the cover page of the International Endodontic Journal i the June edition

Along with the rest of University of Oslo, our lab remains closed until further notice to reduce the spreading of COVID-19 in Norway.

Aman S Chahal has publicly defended his doctoral dissertation From inert to active: biofunctionalised PEG hydrogels to guide stem cell behaviour. Department of Biomaterials congratulates Aman on his great achievement!

In January the consortium in the H2020 Eureka Eurostar OralG project had a two day mid-term meeting where the French partners visited us here in Oslo

Biomaterials hosts an open seminar on the use of extracellular vesicles and platelet lysate in cell free regenerative therapies and as cost-effective cell culture supplement.

On the 30th August 2016 The Symposium “Microbial Surface Colonization” accompanies the “årsmøte” (yearly meeting) of the Norwegian Microbiological Society (Norsk Forening for Mikrobiologi, NFM), and is co-organized by the NFM, the UiO Centre for Integrated Microbial Evolution (CIME) and the Institute of Clinical Dentistry at UiO.

In June 2016, The Department of Biomaterials held a seminar on Growing Artificial Tissues in Simulated Microgravity. The guest speaker of the seminar was Prof. Alamelu Sundaresan from Department of Biology, Texas Southern University, Houston, USA.

The department has received more than 700 000 Euros to provide new insights into the role of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) in immune reactions and cell-to-material interactions.