Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering “Tailored design of multifunctional mesoporous bioactive glasses for bone tissue engineering applications” Carla Migneco (DISAT- Politecnico di Torino) Abstract The research in the field of BGs has rapidly evolved in the last decades, reaching excellent performances in terms of biocompatibility and bio-stimulation of regeneration processes. Although many applications based on BGs have been already successfully developed, these materials are still of primary interest not only in applications in contact with hard tissues, but also in soft tissue repair. The BG evolution is also very impressive, evolving from the original melt-derived to the sol-gel BGs. The sol-gel technique further increased the potential of BGs.