Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Dear CBS members, Please note the Biofabrication 2019, the annual meeting of the International Society of Biofabrication...

Dear CBS members - I am pleased to announce that the CBS has devoted 9000 for Merit Travel Awards to help students and fellows assist the CBS2019 Annual meeting...

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...

Bacterial contamination is a public health and socio-economic problem. In Canada, 220,000 people will develop nosocomial infections each year, 8,000 will die and 106...

Modern medicine relies on the efficient delivery of drugs to treat infections and diseases. Ideally, these drugs should be administered at the exact concentration needed, target the affected area only and not harm healthy cells or tissues...

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...

Generally, drug molecules are associated with low solubility in physiological media, rapid metabolism or undesired interaction with proteins present in the blood including enzymes and antibodies...

As a biological tissue, bone has the ability to remodel itself however, when defects are too large such as caused by traumatic injury or surgical treatment of infections or tumours, bone does not heal effectively...