Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

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• CBS Visiting Scholar Award
• CBS Merit & Travel Award
• WBC 2016 Legacy Postdoctoral Experience Award
• WBC 2016 Legacy Travel Award
• International Union Of Societies For Biomaterials Science And Engineering (IUS-BSE)
• CBS Lifetime Achievement Award
• CBS Early Career Investigator Award
• CBS Service Award

Biomaterials Awards
Best Oral Presentation Awards - Canadian Biomaterials Society

Current Award Winners

36th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society

• Amanda Brissenden (Queen's University)
  Third Place
   
• Timothy Cheung (University of Toronto)
  Second Place
   
• Daniel Dapaah (University of Waterloo)
  Second Place
   
• Felipe Eltit (University of British Columbia)
  Second Place - Postdoctoral Level
   
• Kirklann Lau (McGill University)
  First Place
   
• Zhenwei Ma (McGill University)
  Third Place
   
• Simon Matoori (Université de Montréal)
  First Place - Postdoctoral Level
   
• Fiona Simpson (Université de Montréal)
  Second Place
   
• Julia Terek (University of Western Ontario)
  First Place
   
• Alexane Thibodeau (Université Laval)
  Third Place
   
• Hossein Yazdani Ahmadabadi (University of British Columbia)
  First Place
   

Past Award Winners

34th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society

• Jennifer Chan (University of Toronto)
  Investigation of an electrospun, degradable polar hydrophobic ionic polyurethane patch for cardiac tissue regeneration
   
• Charmainne Cruje (University of Western Ontario)
  Lanthanide-based nanoparticles as vascular contrast agents for micro-computed tomography
   
• Kevin De France (McMaster University)
  Injectable Anisotropic Hydrogels
   
• Tobias Fuehrmann (University of Toronto)
  Local Delivery of Chondroitinase ABC Promotes Neuronal Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Grafts in a Spinal Cord Injury Model
   
• Kulkarni Jayesh (University of British Columbia)
  On the Formation and Morphology of Lipid Nanoparticles Containing Ionizable Cationic Lipids and siRNA
   
• Niloufar Khosravi (University of Toronto)
  Intravital longitudinal imaging of peri-implant endosseous wound healing reveals the role of nanosurfaces in regulating neovascular morphogenesis in vivo
   
• Laura McKiel (Queen's University)
  Toll-like receptor 2-mediated NF-kB activation by damage-associated molecular patterns on biomaterial surfaces
   
• Somiraa Said (McMaster University)
  Magnetically Activated Glass Transition (Tg) Switch Nanocomposites for On-demand Drug Delivery
   

33rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society

• Emily Buck (McGill University)
  Comparison of loading methods of an antimicrobial agent in electrospun PLGA fibers
  (Best Oral Presentation Awards In Burns And Wound Healing)
   
• Sarah Kiros (University of Western Ontario)
  Mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation on electrospun poly (ester amide) fibres for vascular tissue engineering
  (DEPS Best Oral Presentation Awards)
   
• bingcheng liu (University of Manitoba)
  Surface Tension Guided Hanging-Drop: Producing Controllable 3D Spheroid of High-Passaged Human Dermal Papilla Cells and Forming Inductive Microtissues For Hair-follicle Regeneration
  (Best Oral Presentation Awards In Burns And Wound Healing)
   
• Pascal Morissette Martin (University of Western Ontario)
  Human decellularized adipose tissue-derived bead foams enhance the survival and angiogenic response of fibroblasts isolated from human chronic wounds in an in vitro chronic wound model
   
• Judith Ng (University of Toronto)
  Identification and characterization of adhesive proteins in freshwater mussels for the development of novel bioadhesives
   
• Eric Tawagi (University of Toronto)
  Immunomodulatory hydrogel microspheres as a sustained release system for angiogenic growth factors
  (DEPS Best Oral Presentation Awards)
   
• Wai Hei (Andrew) Tse (University of Western Ontario)
  Development of a Biocompatible Upconversion Nanoparticle Model for Theranostic Applications in Anti-angiogenesis
   
• Fei XU (McMaster University)
  Single-step loading of cells into nanofibrous hydrogel scaffolds via reactive electrospinning
   

32nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society

• Yasaman Delaviz (University of Toronto)
  Synthesis of Ciprofloxacin Releasing Di-Vinyl Monomer for Dental Adhesive Systems
   
• Sabrina Hodgson (McMaster University)
  Tuning Gelation Time and Mechanical Properties of Injectable Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels Using Strained Alkyne–Azide Cross-Linking
  Soft Biomaterals I/II
   
• Nima Khadem Mohtaram (University of British Columbia)
  Glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor-releasing nanofibers with varied topographies for neural tissue engineering applications
   
• Alex Lausch (University of Toronto)
  The role of extracellular matrix components on the mineralization of the periodontium
  Orthopaedic Biomaterials I/II
   
• Jennifer Logie (University of Toronto)
  Tuning Polymeric Micelle Stability and Drug Loading with Chemical Modifications
  Drug and Gene Delivery I/II
   
• Somiraa Said (McMaster University)
  Sustained Co-delivery of Fibroblast Growth Factors from Poly(ester amide) Fibers for Building Stronger Vessels
   
• Kimia Sorouri (McMaster University)
  Prostaglandin E(2) Reverses Scar Tissue Production in Human Kidney Epithelial Cells: Implications for Biomaterial Implantation.
   
• Moira Vyner (Queen's University)
  Polymer chain mobility dependent fetuin adsorption affects cell proliferation on elastomer surfaces
  Cell/Biomaterial Interactions II/Ophthalmic Biomaterials
   
• Stuart Young (Queen's University)
  Design and evaluation of a polymer hydrogel scaffold for the delivery of adipose-derived stem cells for the treatment of peripheral arterial disease
  Soft Tissue Engineering/Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering
   

31st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society

• Alexander Baker (University of Toronto)
  3D Hyaluronan Hydrogels as Matrices for Spheroid Formation
   
• Adam Brown (Dalhousie University)
  Does Collagen Crosslinking in Ageing and Diabetes Modulate Overload Damage to Tendon Collagen?
   
• Gregor Doerdelmann (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  pH-Responsive Calcium Phosphate-Polymer Nanoparticles as a Drug Delivery System in Gene Therapy
   
• Tim Tian Han (Queen's University)
  Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Enhance the Angiogenic and Adipogenic Potential of Decellularized Adipose Tissue in vivo
   
• Nima Khadem Mohtaram (University of British Columbia)
  Melt Electrospun Microfiber Scaffolds with Novel Architecture for Neuronal Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
   
• Yan Mei (University of British Columbia)
  Investigation on the Design and Development of Novel Antithrombotic and Anti-adhesion Coatings for Cardiovascular Applications
   
• Arash Momeni (Dalhousie University)
  In Vitro Degradation of Polyphosphate Gels
   
• Hyun Jin Park (Université Laval)
  Electrical stimulation through conductive PPy-PLLA material promoted fibroblast interacting with keratinocytes generating better organised human skin equivalent
   
• Yinan Wang (University of Alberta)
  Probing Bacterium-Substratum interactions by Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation (QCM-D)
   
• Meghan Wright (University of Toronto)
  In Vitro Degradation and Physical Characterization of Antimicrobial Electrospun Scaffolds with Aligned Fibers
   

30th Annual Meeting Of The Canadian Biomaterials Society

• Jasmine Hamilton (University of British Columbia)
  Hyperbranched Polyglycerol Significantly Improves Therapeutic Index of Small Molecular Weight Iron Chelator
   
• Andrea Jeffery (University of Alberta)
  An Improved Model for High-throughput Electrode Biocompatibility Testing
   
• Drew Kuraitis ()
  Therapeutic Regeneration of Muscle Using a Skeletal Muscle-Mimicking Matrix is Maximized in Necrotic Contexts
   
• Frederic Murschel (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
  Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-Functionalized Biomaterials: Specificity and Stability Controlled by Coiled-Coil Interactions
   
• Samantha Noà«l (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
  Soft Functionalization of PET for the Design of Bioactive Compliant Vascular Graft
   
• Zeeshan Sheikh (McGill University)
  Bio-resorption of Dicalcium Phosphate Cement Grafts: Brushite vs. Monetite
   
• Mohit Verma (University of Waterloo)
  Beta-glucans as multifunctional drug delivery vehicles