Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Dear CBS members - For the first time in North America, the International Surfaces and Interfaces for Biomaterials will be held in Quebec city end of next July July 22 to 25, 2019 ...

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...

Immunomodulation, the ability to alter the immune response of a cell to a desired level, can significantly enhance organ transplantation...

Developing biomimetic 3D constructs to study neuronal networks in vitro is critical to address the limitations of conventional 2D cultures used in pre-clinical studies...

Myofibroblasts have been implicated in scar tissue formation around biomaterials. When biomaterials are implanted as part of a tissue engineered construct, as a sensor, as a prosthetic or even as a drug delivery device, scar formation fibrosis around the biomaterial often interferes with the intended function...

Type 1 diabetes T1D is an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of insulin-producing -cells found in pancreatic islets...

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...