Conference Awards
Congratulations to the following winners of best poster and best oral presentation awards at CBS 2017 in Winnipeg! Thank you to our sponsors for providing additional funding for recognizing the top presentations at the conference.
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering Best Poster Awards
Stephanie Fernandez (McGill University) - Engineering a Vascularised Encapsulation Device for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes
Eve Hui (Ecole de technologie superieure) - Development of an Injectable and Thermosensitive Chitosan Hydrogel for the Prevention of Post-surgical Abdominal Adhesions
CBS Best Poster Awards
Leixi Chen (McGill University) - Adhesive Strength of Surgical Adhesives on Porcine Vocal Fold Tissue
Michaela Thomas (University of Victoria) - Bioprinting Neural Tissue
DEPS Best Oral Presentation Awards
Eric Tawagi (University of Toronto) - Immunomodulatory hydrogel microspheres as a sustained release system for angiogenic growth factors
Sarah Kiros (Western University) - Mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation on electrospun poly (ester amide) fibres for vascular tissue engineering
Burns and Trauma Best Oral Presentation Awards in Burns and Wound Healing
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
Emily Buck (McGill University) - Comparison of loading methods of an antimicrobial agent in electrospun PLGA fibers
CBS Best Oral Presentation Awards
Judith Ng (University of Toronto) - Identification and characterization of adhesive proteins in freshwater mussels for the development of novel bioadhesives
Wai Hei Tse (Western University) - 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
Pascal Morissette Martin (Western University) - 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
Previous Meeting Best Presentation Awards
At each Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society, the best poster and podium presentations by students and post-doctoral fellows are given awards from CBS. The winners of conference awards from CBS conferences are shown below - congratulations!
10th World Biomaterials Congress (Montreal, 2016) award winners
32nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society (Toronto, 2015) award winners
31st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society (Halifax, 2014) award winners
30th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society (Ottawa, 2013) award winners
29th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society (Vancouver, 2011) award winners
Biomaterial Highlight Of The Month
Evaluation of Composite Hydrogel Scaffolds Comprised of Methacrylated Chondroitin Sulphate and Decellularized Adipose Tissue of Varying Particle Size
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