Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

News All News

Save the Date for CBS2026! June 2–5, 2026 0 comments

by
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...
more

CBS Eastern Canada Research Day - Abstracts due Sept 15th 0 comments

by Patricia Comeau
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 ...
more

CBS Board of Directors Elections 2025 and CBS2027 Update 0 comments

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick
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...
more

Meetings All Meetings

Discover

A Novel Nano-silver Coated and Hydrogel-impregnated Polyurethane Nanofibrous Mesh for Ventral Hernia Repair comments

by Mengqiu (Malcolm) Xing Kaige Xu
Ventral hernia is one of the most common abdomen surgical diseases. Usually, polypropylene PP meshes are widely used for ventral hernia repair since PP meshes are relative inexpensive and easy to handle and incorporation into tissue...
more

Gene delivery as a tool to promote the deposition of elastin by smooth muscle cells in collagen gel-based vascular wall models comments

by Diego Mantovani Dimitria Camasao
Vascular tissue engineering usually relies on the cellularization of scaffold materials with vascular cells with the ultimate aim to produce artificial blood vessels substitutes overcoming the drawbacks of current vascular grafts, especially for small diameter vessels...
more

3D Microgels to Quantify Tumor Cell Properties and Therapy Response Dynamics comments

by Nila Wu
Tumors contain heterogeneous and dynamic populations of cells that do not all display the fast- proliferating properties that traditional chemotherapies target...
more

Ultra-high molecular weight hyperbranched polyglycerol polymers are hemocompatible materials for biomedical applications comments

by Lily Takeuchi
Generally, drug molecules are associated with low solubility in physiological media, rapid metabolism or undesired interaction with proteins present in the blood including enzymes and antibodies...
more

Amir comments

by Mohsen Akbari
Magnetic-activated cell separation using magnetic nanoparticles has been widely used as it offers high specificity and sensitivity 1 ...
more

Connect

Active Job Postings

  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Conductive Polymer–Based Supercapacitors
    more
  • TIER 2 CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN CELL ENGINEERING AND BIOMANUFACTURING
    more
  • Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Bioprocessing and Biomanufacturing
    more
  • Research Associate in Next-Generation RNA Therapeutics at UBC
    more

Recent Member Projects

  • Juan David Figueroa Alegria: New Generation of Peptide-Based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
    more
  • Dena Shahriari: AI-enhanced image processing
    more
  • Dena Shahriari: Biomaterials for spinal cord repair
    more
  • Dena Shahriari: Smart biomaterials for bladder management
    more

Recent Member Publications

  • Robyn Birch: Denosumab treatment of giant cell tumors in the spine induces woven bone formation
    more
  • Daniel Nguyen: Mechanically Stable and Tunable Photoactivated Peptide-Based Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Adhesion
    more
  • German Andres Mercado: Mechanically Stable and Tunable Photoactivated Peptide-Based Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Adhesion
    more
  • German Andres Mercado: Multipurpose On-the-Spot Peptide-Based Hydrogels for Skin, Cornea and Heart Repair
    more
Close Drag