Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

News All News

WBC2016 Legacy Travel Awards 0 comments

by Sophie Lerouge
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...
more

CBS logo 0 comments

by Sophie Lerouge
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...
more

CBS 2018-2019 Election Results 0 comments

by Sophie Lerouge
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...
more

Annual General Meeting - May 17, 12PM 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
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...
more

Meetings All Meetings

Discover

Bisphosphonate Delivery through Ammonia-induced Calcium Phosphate Insert and Effects on Osteoclastic Resorption Activity comments

by Rizhi Wang Christina Chen
Bisphosphonates are calcium-binding drugs that inhibit the bone-resorbing function of osteoclasts1. Nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates target farnesyl diphosphate synthase, an enzyme of the mevalonate pathway...
more

Sustained Co-delivery of Fibroblast Growth Factors from Poly(ester amide) Fibers for Building Stronger Vessels comments

by Somiraa Said
Therapeutic angiogenesis has emerged over the last few decades as a potential strategy to treat many ischemic vascular diseases1...
more

What Biochemical Assays Can and Cannot Tell You About Biomaterials (AKA Lies That My Assays Told Me) comments

by Marianne Ariganello
In recent years, the development of multiplexing assays collecting multiple endpoints from one single sample has increased in a number of fields including toxicology and drug development ...
more

High-throughput Fabrication of Cell-laden Gelatin Methacrylate Microgels for Tissue Engineering comments

by Keekyoung Kim Mohamed Gamaleldin Abdelkhalek Mohamed
Tissue engineering applies a combination of material, mechanical, chemical and biological sciences with the aim of creating systems that are able to repair of even replace a biological function...
more

Evaluation of a tissue engineered nerve conduit for peripheral nerve regeneration of a rat sciatic nerve defect comments

by Alexane Thibodeau
Even with all recent technologies, peripheral nerve transections are still a challenge for surgeon. Nerve defect can lead to severe loss of sensibility and motor functions with significant impact on patient s quality of life...
more

Connect

Active Job Postings

  • TIER 2 CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN CELL ENGINEERING AND BIOMANUFACTURING
    more
  • Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Bioprocessing and Biomanufacturing
    more
  • Research Associate in Next-Generation RNA Therapeutics at UBC
    more
  • Research Associate in Next-Generation RNA Therapeutics at UBC
    more

Recent Member Projects

  • Alejandro Forigua: Droplets, Articificial cells, Soft matter, Microfluidics, Gene Therapies
    more
  • Xianglong Xing: A Mushroom-Inspired Golden Ratio–Guided Compressible and Shape-Adaptive Gradient Porous Hemostatic Scaffold for Minimally Invasive Gastric Perforation Repair
    more
  • Allysia Chin: Zwitterionic Polymer Lipid Nanoparticles to Deliver RNA Therapeutics in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
    more
  • Allysia Chin: Zwitterionic Polymer Lipid Nanoparticles to Deliver RNA Therapeutics in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
    more

Recent Member Publications

  • German Andres Mercado: Mechanically Stable and Tunable Photoactivated Peptide-Based Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Adhesion
    more
  • German Andres Mercado: Multipurpose On-the-Spot Peptide-Based Hydrogels for Skin, Cornea and Heart Repair
    more
  • Kate MacQuarrie: Smooth muscle cell-like support cells accelerate the autologous endothelialization of a polyurethane scaffold for vascular engineering
    more
  • Alma Tamunonengiofori Banigo: Bioactive Hydrogels Based on Tyramine and Maleimide Functionalized Dextran for Tissue Engineering Applications
    more
Close Drag