Bioactive Glasses

Heimo O. Ylänen is Associate Professor at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Dr. Ylänen is a materials science engineer who obtained his Bachelor and Master’s degree from the Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland. After obtaining his M.Sc. he worked for 17 years in an international pharmaceutical company before returning to Academia to obtain his Ph.D. In 2004, he was invited to begin as a director of Turku Biomaterials Centre at University of Turku. In September 2008, Ylänen was invited to start as a Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tampere University of Technology. He retired from TUT at the end of 2014. Today, he´s working as Senior Academic Advisor in two Finnish start-up companies established on the research results raised during the university research.

Part I: Materials and mechanical properties of bioactive glass 1. Melt-derived bioactive glasses 2. Bioactive glass structure and solubility 3. Computational modelling of bioactive glasses 4. Sol-gel derived and applications 5. Mesoporous bioactive glasses and applications 6. Mechanical properties of bioactive glasses 7. Bioactive glass coatings 8. Surface modification of bioactive glasses 9. Cell interaction with bioactive glasses and ceramics 10. Regulatory aspects of bioactive glass

Part II: Applications of bioactive glass 11. Bioactive glass and glass-ceramic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering 12. Nanoscaled bioactive glass particles and nanofibres 13. Bioactive glass containing composites for bone and musculoskeletal tissue engineering scaffolds 14. Use of bioactive glasses as bone substitutes in orthopaedics and Traumatology 15. Bioactive glass composite bone void fillers 16. Bioactive glass S53P4 as a bone graft substitute in the treatment of osteomyelitis 17. Bioactive glass for maxillofacial and dental repair 18. Bioactive glass and biodegradable polymer composites 19. Bioactive glasses for wound healing