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...

Keywords Photobiomodulation, Wound Healing, In Vitro Model The potential for near infrared IR light emitting diodes LEDs to increase the healing rate of injuries has been suggested by multiple research and product development groups...

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...

Dressings are an important segment of medical and pharmaceutical market for the treatment of wounds throughout the world and have been subjected to an evolutionary process from natural materials, which simply cover and protect the wound, to materials able to promote the delivery of active compounds, facilitating the healing process...

Cells sense and respond to mechanical cues from surrounding biological or artificial substrates through lamellipodia and filopodia 1 ...

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...