Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

The Fall 2019 edition of the CBS Newsletter is now available. Read about the latest initiatives from CBS, look back at the Quebec City CBS Annual Meeting and look ahead to WBC 2020 coming up this May in Glasgow, find out more about our very active student chapters across the country, meet the new CBS Senior Board Members and President-Elect, and learn more about the many award opportunities provided by CBS...

It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Sophie Lerouge and Dr. Lauren Flynn have been elected by board of directors as CBS representatives for the IUS-BSE for the period of 2020-2024...

We are very pleased to inform you that Dr. Diego Mantovani has been selected by the Board of Directors of the Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS as the next recipient of the CBS Service Award, acknowledging his outstanding contributions to our Society...

On behalf of CBS Award committee, we wish Dr. Felipe Eltit a hearty congratulation on receiving the CBS Visiting Scholar Award of the year...

Grafting proteins on surfaces is of great interest for several biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering or drug delivery systems 1 ...

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

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...

It is currently established that two-dimensional 2D cancer cell culture fails to recapitulate the essential features of in vivo tumor growth...

Recent efforts from the scientific community have focused on the development of in vitro systems that recapitulate key components of the complex architecture of tissues and organ functions, showing tremendous potential for disease modelling as well as drug development and discovery...