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...

Spinal cord injuries SCI are appraised as one of the most serious neuronal degradation challenges world-wide 1, 2 ...

Surface modification constitutes a key strategy for the improvement of blood compatibility for polymeric biomaterials 1 ...

Current methods of drug screening in cancer are limited by the high cost of in vivo testing and the inaccuracy of predicting the effects of a potential chemotherapy drug in 2D cell culture 1 ...

Hydrogels are three-dimensional crosslinked polymer networks that have been widely explored in drug delivery given that their tunable internal porosities allow drugs to be loaded and subsequently released with user-defined kinetics...

Creating smart materials that form in response to environmental cues will require strategies for detecting an onslaught of diverse molecules, materials, and cells, and responding to a specific subset...