Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

The Ottawa Student Chapter is pleased to present The 2022 Biomaterials Challenge We challenge graduate and undergraduate students in Ontario to compete on explaining How to select a biomaterial? and What is biocompatibility? to 7th-grade students in a 3-minute recorded video or an infographic Deadline to submit March 10th, 2022

Dear Colleagues Breaking News Joining Prof. Jennifer Elisseeff Johns Hopkins is both Prof. W. Wagner AND Prof...

Dear Colleagues Breaking News We are so excited that Prof. Jennifer Elisseeff Johns Hopkins has accepted our invitation to be a Plenary Speaker for the upcoming 2022 CBS Conference in Banff Prof...

Why register in the CBS mentorship and professional development program? A PhD for what and then what? This is a question I asked myself during my PhD and my two postdocs...

Urinary tract infection associated with the use of urethral catheters is one of the most common infections in health care facilities...

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. When the replacement of diseased arteries is needed, vascular surgeons often have no choice but to use synthetic arterial prostheses made either of poly ethylene terephthalate PET or Dacron or expanded tetrafluoroethylene ePTFE or Teflon ...

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...

Adverse local tissue reactions to hip implants ALTRs are characterized by chronic inflammation, fibrosis and necrosis of the joints soft tissues, generating pain, swelling, increasing the risk of dislocation and failure of the reconstructive surgeries, thus reducing mobility with the subsequent detriment on the quality of life of patients 1 ...

Recent advances in the preservation of donor organs have greatly improved the success rate of transplantation surgery...