Canadian Biomaterials Society
Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Dear CBS Members, This is a friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for CBS2025 is today Submit your abstracts here...

Calling all ECR Faculty Members for Keynote Presentation Opportunities Dear CBS Members, A feature of CBS2025 will be presentations from current Early Career Researcher ECR faculty member highlighting their expertise and new research...

CBS2025 abstract submission deadline is extended until February 7th We know it is a busy time of year and so we are happy to announce that the CBS 2025 abstract submission deadline for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterial Society has been extended until February 7th, 2025 please note that this will be the last extension The CBS2025 Organizing Committee invites you to submit your abstracts related to biomaterials research through the Oxford Abstracts submission portal...

Happy Monday There are two upcoming events that may be of interest to CBS members and our local biomaterials community...

Alzheimer s disease AD , a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is becoming increasingly prevalent in aging populations...

Immunomodulation, the ability to alter the immune response of a cell to a desired level, can significantly enhance organ transplantation...

Over 900,000 bone-grafting procedures are performed each year in the USA 1 . Human bone allografts are used in the orthopaedic reconstruction of skeletal defects resulting from traumatic injuries, diseases and revision arthroplasty however, bone allografts have insufficient mechanical properties 2 and graft fracture is a documented clinical failure mode 3 ...

Most strategies aiming at developing biocompatible arterial prostheses target the recruitment of endothelial cells EC to reproduce a native artery intima...

Cells sense and respond to mechanical cues from surrounding biological or artificial substrates through lamellipodia and filopodia 1 ...