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...

Low back pain is one of the most prevalent debilitating diseases that affects approximately 1 in 50 Canadians...

Clinical practice guidelines for sepsis recommend serum lactate for disease staging, prognosis, and assessment of treatment response 1 ...

Layer-by-layer LbL self-assembly is a technique fabricating thin material films on surfaces. Owing to its diverse characteristics, it becomes an important tool not only in material science, but also in biological research...

Elastin is the extracellular protein primarily responsible for elasticity in animal tissues. Elastin self-assembles from its protein building block unit, tropoelastin, via a liquid-liquid phase separation process known as coacervation...

Three-dimensional 3D bioprinting of photocrosslinkable hydrogels has attracted great interest for various tissue engineering applications as the biochemical and mechanical properties of the resulting hydrogel structures can be tuned to generate a physiologically relevant microenvironment for cells...