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Reminder: Book Accommodation for CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS Meeting this June! 0 comments

by Patricia Comeau
Dear CBS Members and Friends, We have been asked to share the following message on behalf of the organizing committee for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS meeting in Vancouver, BC...
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CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS 2026 Mtg - Late Breaking Abstracts 0 comments

by Patricia Comeau
Dear Canadian Biomaterials Society Members Friends, A call for late-breaking abstracts has now been released for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in sunny Vancouver, BC...
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CBS/CSPS/CC-CRS 2026 Meeting Update - Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended 0 comments

by Patricia Comeau
Dear CBS Members and Friends, Early bird registration has been extended to April 15th 2026 and may be completed using the attached link...
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CBS BC Student Chapter Webinar - April 10th at 1pm PST 0 comments

by Patricia Comeau
Dear CBS Members and Friends, The BC Student Chapter of the Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS is pleased to host a webinar this Friday, April 10th at 1pm PST...
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Engineering of Biomimetic Vascular Substitutes by a Combinatorial Approach comments

by Corinne Hoesli Mariève Boulanger
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. In Canada, over 50 000 coronary artery bypass surgeries and percutaneous coronary interventions are performed each year...
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Investigating the role of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 activation in the vascularization of modular tissue engineered constructs comments

by Gabrielle Lam
Vascularization is crucial to the fabrication of engineered tissues of therapeutically relevant size and cell loads...
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Temperature Responsive Nanogels for the Encapsulation and Targeted Delivery of Nitroimidazole Derivatized Molecule for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Treatment of Hypoxic Liver Cancer comments

by Ravin Narain Stephen Quan
Nanogels have received huge attention in the past decade due to their non-toxic properties and the ability to encapsulate small molecules for drug delivery that enhance the therapeutic potency of the drugs 1 ...
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3D Printed Natural-Based Hydrogels Platforms for Salivary Gland Cells Expansion and Spheroid-Like Structure Formation comments

by Jose Gil Munguia Lopez
Patients treated with radiotherapy for head and neck cancer and patients with Sj gren s syndrome experience decreased saliva flow due to the loss of salivary gland SG acinar cells...
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Homo and Copolymerization Kinetics of Trimethylene Carbonate Bearing a Methoxyethoxy Side Group comments

by Fei Chen
Polymers prepared from trimethylene carbonate bearing a pendant methoxyethoxy side group exhibit a thermoresponsive nature and thus are potentially of interest as biomaterials...
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