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...

Vascular tissue engineering usually relies on the cellularization of scaffold materials with vascular cells with the ultimate aim to produce artificial blood vessels substitutes overcoming the drawbacks of current vascular grafts, especially for small diameter vessels...

Vascular tissue engineering seeks to produce biologically and mechanically responsive vascular substitutes using cells, scaffolds and bioreactors, to address the shortcomings of current vascular interventions such as coronary artery bypass grafts and to create pre-clinical testing platforms to study vascular pathologies...

Injectable hydrogels have received much attention to be used as scaffolds for therapeutic cell delivery because of their interesting properties such as biocompatibility, ability to retain water, insignificant mechanical and frictional irritation with the native tissue and having the possibility to be located in the body through minimally invasive operations...

Diabetic patients suffer from frequent formation of sores on the foot, called diabetic ulcers DU , that are struggling to heal and subject to frequent infections that may require amputation of the lower legs...

In tumor progression, the hypoxia-mediated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition EMT works as an important survival pathway, where epithelial cells lose their polarized properties and acquire mesenchymal characteristics...