Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

News All News

Save the Date for CBS2026! June 2–5, 2026 0 comments

by
Overview The Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS , the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS , and the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS are joining forces to host a landmark joint conference at UBC Vancouver...
more

CBS Eastern Canada Research Day - Abstracts due Sept 15th 0 comments

by Patricia Comeau
Dear CBS Members Colleagues, We are excited to share that four of our Eastern Canada student chapters have organized a 2025 Canadian Biomaterials Society Eastern Canada Student Research Day ...
more

CBS Board of Directors Elections 2025 and CBS2027 Update 0 comments

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick
Dear CBS Member, I have a two important news items to communicate 1. CBS Board Member Elections It is now time to cast your votes for open positions on the CBS Board of Directors...
more

Meetings All Meetings

Discover

Influence of Chemical Conjugation Strategies on the Bioactivity of Fibronectin comments

by Michael Byad
Since thirty years, efforts were put forward to engineer materials that could be used to build up biomedical devices that have to come in contact with human tissues...
more

Mechanistic investigation of activity loss of enzymes upon PEGylation comments

by Andrea Greschner
Conjugation of methoxy poly ethylene glycol mPEG onto the surface of therapeutic proteins has long been used to reduce their immunogenicity and increase their circulatory half-life...
more

Mineralized Bovine Tendon Sheets Prepared Through Alternate Soaking for Bone Tissue Regeneration comments

by Brendan Grue
Alternatives to existing implantable materials ex. metals or autologous grafts for bone tissue repair and regeneration are needed to improve patient outcomes and avoid the complications caused by issues such as stress shielding and donor site morbidity 1 ...
more

Diels-Alder “click” crosslinked polymer scaffolds within calcium alginate templated beads comments

by S. Alison Stewart
Encapsulation of cells within semi-permeable polymer hydrogels is a promising approach for the treatment of hormone or enzyme-deficiency disorders...
more

Engineering the heart: Evaluation of conductive nanomaterials for improving implant integration and cardiac function comments

by Mengqiu (Malcolm) Xing mohammad Ali darabi
Engineering cardiac tissues in vitro offers new perspectives for the therapy of myocardial infarction MI 1 ...
more

Connect

Active Job Postings

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

Recent Member Projects

  • Juan David Figueroa Alegria: New Generation of Peptide-Based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
    more
  • Dena Shahriari: AI-enhanced image processing
    more
  • Dena Shahriari: Biomaterials for spinal cord repair
    more
  • Dena Shahriari: Smart biomaterials for bladder management
    more

Recent Member Publications

  • Robyn Birch: Denosumab treatment of giant cell tumors in the spine induces woven bone formation
    more
  • Daniel Nguyen: Mechanically Stable and Tunable Photoactivated Peptide-Based Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Adhesion
    more
  • 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
Close Drag