Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Dear CBS Members, As you are aware, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused numerous disruptions around the world, and scheduled conferences are being either postponed or canceled...

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

CBS is pleased to offer travel awards to assist students and post-doctoral fellows who are CBS members to present their accepted oral or poster abstracts at the 11th World Biomaterials Congress this May in Glasgow, Scotland...

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...

Although linear and branched polyethylenimines lPEI and bPEI are considered the gold standard polymeric gene carriers 1 , some conflicting results on their performance have been reported...

Polylactic acid PLA is a biodegradable aliphatic polyester, which is widely used in the pharmaceutical and biomedical sectors on account of its biocompatibility and good mechanical properties...

Breast cancer metastasis to bone is associated with poor patient prognosis as current non-specific therapeutics are administered systemically with deleterious side effects...

Pulmonary hypertension PH is a progressive disease defined by the unwanted stiffening and narrowing of arteries in the lungs, ultimately resulting in right heart failure and death...

Human induced pluripotent stem cells hiPSCs have two prominent properties pluripotency and the ability to self-renew...