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Winner of CBS Visiting Scholar Award - Dr. Felipe 0 comments

by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
On behalf of CBS Award committee, we wish Dr. Felipe Eltit a hearty congratulation on receiving the CBS Visiting Scholar Award of the year...
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CBS Industry Mentoring Program 0 comments

by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
Canadian universities provide world-recognized training in research and leadership for their graduate students...
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New Board of Directors of CBS 0 comments

by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
We would like to update you on new Board of Directors of CBS. As of June 21st 2019, We have President Nima Khadem Mohtaram University of Waterloo 2019 - 2020 President Elect Kibret Mequanint Western University 2019 - 2020 - President 2020-2021 Past President Sophie Lerouge Ecole de Technologie Superieure ETS - CRCHUM 2019-2020 Board Members Fabio Variola University of Ottawa 2019-2021 Isabelle Catelas University of Ottawa 2018-2020 Thomas Willett University of Waterloo 2018-2020 Milica Radisic University of Toronto 2018-2020 Mohsen Akbari University of Victoria 2018-2020 Student Board Member Laura McKiel Queen s University 2019-2020
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WBC 2020 Workshop Proposals 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
As you may have noticed already, the WBC2020 Executive Committee is calling for workshop proposals. We hereby would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to submit your proposals before the deadline of June 30th 2019...
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Fibronectin Modified Surfaces for Leukemia Cell Adhesion in Evaluating the Influence of Adhesion on Drug Sensitivity comments

by Juliana Valencia Serna
Current therapies with tyrosine kinase inhibitors such as Imatinib against Chronic Myeloid Leukemia CML inhibit production of 99 of fast-dividing cells, which are mostly the ones that remain in suspension through out the circulation system...
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Mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation on electrospun poly (ester amide) fibres for vascular tissue engineering comments

by Kibret Mequanint Sarah Kiros
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...
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Effects of exogenous insulin on macrophage survival and pro-inflammatory signalling comments

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick Yuxi Zhang
Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion CSII is a treatment strategy for Type I diabetes mellitus T1D that relies on insulin infusion sets IIS to deliver insulin to the subcutaneous tissue via a polytetrafluoroethylene PTFE or stainless-steel cannula...
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Macrochelators Eradicate Preformed Biofilms comments

by Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu Arshdeep Gill
Antibiotic drug resistance is one of the biggest problems facing infectious disease researchers currently in almost every corner of the world...
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Well-defined hyaluronic acid based hydrogels for studying primary lymphoma tumours comments

by Molly Shoichet Laura Bahlmann
Conventional drug screening is performed on cells cultured on 2D, stiff poly styrene , which provides an environment that misrepresents the morphology and growth characteristics of patient tumours...
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