Prof. Dr. Meike Stiesch was formally honored at the Leopoldina Class III – Medicine Symposium in Halle (Saale) with the presentation of her membership certificate.

95 new members of the European Academy of Microbiology – one of them comes from our consortium!

Great joy for Amit Gaikwad, who received the Presentation Award in the category “New Biomaterials and Technologies” at the International Osteology Symposium in Vienna.

We are thrilled about the renewed funding approval from the German Research Foundation and look forward with great anticipation to the next steps in interdisciplinary research!

The interdisciplinary research network SIIRI brings together expertise from medicine, engineering and materials research to make implants safer.

Prof. Thomas Lenarz was privileged to present the prestigious Kurt Schürmann Lecture at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Skull Base Surgery (GSB) in Aarau.

The Collaborative Research Center/Transregio SIIRI mourns the loss of Professor Dr. Christina Stukenborg-Colsmann, who passed away unexpectedly on March 24, 2025.

Professor Dr. med. Thomas Lenarz and Professor Dr. Dr. Andrej Kral were honored with honorary membership of the Austrian Society for Otorhinolaryngology during the 68th Austrian ENT Congress 2024 in recognition of their outstanding scientific achievements. More information here.

The International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP) has a new president: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Berend Denkena, Head of the Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools (IFW) at Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Andrej Kral has been honored with the ARO Pioneer Award in Basic Science 2024. This award recognizes his groundbreaking research on brain plasticity following hearing loss. Learn more about his pioneering findings and their impact on medical care.