Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Editor-in-Chief of Materials Letters
Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Editor-in-Chief of Materials Letters

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Editor-in-Chief of , Head of the Institute of Biomaterials, at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, received the prestigious "Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture Award 2016" by the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE).

The award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to ceramic engineering. Those contributions will have a technological basis that relates to the processing or manufacturing of ceramic products. The award was presented at the ACerS Honors and Awards Banquet at MS&T 2016 conference joint with ACerS 118th Annual Meeting on 24th October 2016 in Salt Lake City, USA.

Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture entitled: "Bioactive Glasses in Soft Tissue Repair. What Do We Know So Far?"