Also in October, the School of Engineering of the University of Minho revealed the results for the “Prémio EEUM – Melhor Tese de Doutoramento 2008” (School of Engineering Award for the Best PhD Thesis in 2008) and decided to award the thesis entitled: “New Biomimetic Acellular Routes for Pre-Calcification of Implant Materials, Carrier Particles and Porous Scaffolds”, by Isabel Maria Bacelo Leonor, researcher from the 3B’s Research Group, Department of Polymer Engineering.
Alexandra Marques, Honorary mention awarded by The Society for Biomaterials to the work “ The effect of surface modification of starch based degradable biomaterials on the adhesion and proliferation of osteoblast-like cells” presented on the 29th Annual Meeting of The Society for Biomaterials, Reno, Nevada, USA, April 2003