Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

The Fall 2019 edition of the CBS Newsletter is now available. Read about the latest initiatives from CBS, look back at the Quebec City CBS Annual Meeting and look ahead to WBC 2020 coming up this May in Glasgow, find out more about our very active student chapters across the country, meet the new CBS Senior Board Members and President-Elect, and learn more about the many award opportunities provided by CBS...

It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Sophie Lerouge and Dr. Lauren Flynn have been elected by board of directors as CBS representatives for the IUS-BSE for the period of 2020-2024...

We are very pleased to inform you that Dr. Diego Mantovani has been selected by the Board of Directors of the Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS as the next recipient of the CBS Service Award, acknowledging his outstanding contributions to our Society...

On behalf of CBS Award committee, we wish Dr. Felipe Eltit a hearty congratulation on receiving the CBS Visiting Scholar Award of the year...

Dressings are an important segment of medical and pharmaceutical market for the treatment of wounds throughout the world and have been subjected to an evolutionary process from natural materials, which simply cover and protect the wound, to materials able to promote the delivery of active compounds, facilitating the healing process...

Human skin has a complex array of functions and abilities such as preventing infection, providing sensation, and regenerating its dermal and epidermal layers upon physical injury 1 ...

We present a nano-spray therapy for on-the spot-repair of a heart attack. Our sprayable therapy uses nano-engineered peptide-based materials, where nanomolar concentrations of surface engineered spherical nanogold are used to coat the surface of the cardiac muscle...

Infection comprises more than 75 of the mortality in burn wound injuries. Increased scarring and delay in wound healing process are the other detrimental impacts of infection on the burn wounds, necessitating the early detection of the infection at the wound site in clinical practices...

Keratinocytes as the principal skin cell type play a major role in wound closure 1. And electrical stimulation ES has been found effective in promoting wound healing 2...