Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Please note that the CBS Board of Directors has approved an increase in membership fees, effective immediately...

The Scientific Program Committee of WBC2024 are soliciting proposals for symposia at the upcoming World Congress in Daegu, Republic of Korea May 26 May 31, 2023 ...

The Fall 2022 edition of the CBS Newsletter has been released. You can access it here.

The 38th CBS annual meeting with be held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Call for abstracts opens December 1st, 2022, and the Early Bird registration deadline is March 1st, 2023...

One out of nine Canadian men will suffer prostate cancer PC during his lifetime 1 . Life expectancy of men with PC has increased due to androgen deprivation therapy and nowadays 90 of PC patients live 10 years...

Hydrogels are three-dimensional 3D water-retaining, polymeric matrices that are frequently implemented in diverse biomedical fields1...

Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder that affects roughly 1 in 5000 live births. A form of this disease, hemophilia B, is caused by deficiencies of the clotting protein, factor IX FIX , which is part of the coagulation cascade that, when activated by vascular injury, generates fibrin and its crosslinker, factor XIIIa FXIIIa ...

Protein adsorption is an initial response to biomaterials and a precursor to thrombus formation and inflammation, which can result in significant challenges to device efficacy...

Cardiovascular disease CVD is the cause of approximately one third of Canadian and American mortalities each year 1,2 ...