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...

Bone metastases have been treated by several methods including surgery and chemotherapy. One treatment by surgery involves removal of cancerous bone and implantation of a scaffold or graft to fill the void and to allow new bone formation...

Therapeutic angiogenesis has emerged over the last few decades as a potential strategy to treat many ischemic vascular diseases1...

Tumors contain heterogeneous and dynamic populations of cells that do not all display the fast- proliferating properties that traditional chemotherapies target...

Stem-cell mediated endogenous repair has emerged as a regenerative strategy for vision-threatening conditions1...

In recent years, adverse local tissue reactions ALTRs have been observed in total hip implants that use CoCrMo femoral head articulating against highly-crosslinking polyethylene HXLPE liner, raising an urgent concern to the biomedical community...