Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Overview The Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS , the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS , and the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS are joining forces to host a landmark joint conference at UBC Vancouver...

Dear CBS Members Colleagues, We are excited to share that four of our Eastern Canada student chapters have organized a 2025 Canadian Biomaterials Society Eastern Canada Student Research Day ...

Dear CBS Member, I have a two important news items to communicate 1. CBS Board Member Elections It is now time to cast your votes for open positions on the CBS Board of Directors...

Lipid nanoparticles LNPs containing short infering RNA siRNA and messenger RNA mRNA have been clinically shown to be able to treat the root cause of genetic diseases and confer protection against infection as with Onpattro and the recent COVID-19 vaccines, respectively...

First introduced over a century ago, total hip arthroplasty THA is a refined surgical intervention that allows for the recovery of function in a patient s debilitated hip joint for up to 10 to 15 years 1 , 2 ...

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. When the replacement of diseased arteries is needed, vascular surgeons often have no choice but to use synthetic arterial prostheses made either of poly ethylene terephthalate PET or Dacron or expanded tetrafluoroethylene ePTFE or Teflon ...

The development of new biomaterials has opened up new avenues of drug delivery, bio-monitoring and other implantable medical devices 1 ...

Vascular tissue engineering usually relies on the cellularization of scaffold materials with vascular cells with the ultimate aim to produce artificial living artery equivalents overcoming the drawbacks of current vascular grafts, especially for small diameter vessels...