Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Dear CBS members - I am pleased to announce that the WBC2016 Legacy award committee has reviewed all the applications and selected the winners of the Travel awards...

Dear members of the CBS, We need your help to reshape the CBS logo. All details of the contest are indicated in our Fall2018 Newsletter...

I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Mohsen Akbari, Isabelle Catelas, Milica Radisic and Tom Willett have been elected as Senior Board Members and Laura McKiel as Student Board Member...

The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society will be held on May 17, 2018, 12 00 1 00 PM PST in the Michele Pujol Room at the Student Union Building SUB at the University of Victoria...

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...

Mechanical reinforcement of optically functional materials is of significant interest for various industries due to the rapid expansion of related devices...

Hydrogels have attracted significant interest as matrices for tissue engineering due to their many advantages such as low protein adsorption, high water content, tunable chemical properties and high cell compatibility...

Injectable hydrogels that can be delivered using needles offer particular advantages in biomedical applications given that these hydrogels do not require invasive surgical implantation, thereby reducing recovery time for patients, reducing costs, and in many cases enabling direct encapsulation, rather than post-encapsulation, of cells during the gel formation process 1 ...

Intervertebral disk degeneration IVDD is a common disease, especially in elderly people, that causes severe back pain and affects patients mobility and life quality considerably...