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CBS Annual General Meeting - Thursday, May 25 1 comment

by Todd Hoare
The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society will be held Thursday, May 25 starting at 12 45PM during CBS 2017 in Winnipeg...
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You're invited: Eastern Ontario CBS Symposium 0 comments

by Laura McKiel
CBS-KSC is proud to announce the first annual Eastern Ontario CBS symposium The event will be held on May 19th from 1 30-4 30 pm in the Human Mobility Research Centre of Kingston General Hospital...
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Paul Santerre - Governor General's Innovation 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
Congratulations to Paul Santerre on his being awarded one of six Governor General s Innovation Awards, to be officially granted in a ceremony at Rideau Hall on May 23...
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CBS 2017 Industry/Clinician-Academic Partnership D 0 comments

by Thomas Willett
Join us for the Industry Clinician-Academic Partnership Discussion Group hosted by the CBS Industry Clinician Engagement Working Group - Friday, May 26th, 2017 from 12 15pm to 1 15pm in the EITC Atrium at the University of Manitoba...
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Soft Robotics in the Design of Prosthetic Heart Valves comments

by Luke Ohlmann
The aortic valve is the most commonly replaced heart valve, as it is the most susceptible to disease from having the worst operating conditions the highest systemic blood pressure...
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High-throughput synthesis, analysis, and optimization of injectable hydrogels for drug delivery comments

by Todd Hoare Fei XU
Hydrogels are three-dimensional crosslinked polymer networks that have been widely explored in drug delivery given that their tunable internal porosities allow drugs to be loaded and subsequently released with user-defined kinetics...
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The Modification of the Viscoelastic Mechanical Properties of Collagen Hydrogels by Creep comments

by Bernard Drouin
Most of the mechanical solicitations within the human body are stress driven. As an example, vascular biomaterials are submitted to an average blood pressure of 100 mmHg...
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hMSCs Stem Cell Niche Mimic Throught Peptide Micro & Nanostructuration comments

by Laurence Padiolleau
Nowadays, it is well known that human mesenchymal stem cells hMSCs can detect and translate physical, mechanical et chemical information provided by their microenvironment, the extracellular matrix ECM ...
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Toll-like receptor 2-mediated NF-kB activation by damage-associated molecular patterns on biomaterial surfaces comments

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick Laura McKiel
The innate immune response is the body s primary defense against infection and injury, and is facilitated largely by white blood cells, such as macrophages...
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