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Our Virtual AGM 2020 0 comments

by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
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...
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Winner of CBS Lifetime Achievement Award 0 comments

by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
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...
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WBC2020 Travel Award 0 comments

by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
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...
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Fall 2019 CBS Newsletter 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
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...
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Partial or Complete Enzymatic Digestion of Glycosaminoglycans Does Not Affect Porcine Aortic Wall Properties Measured from Biaxial Testing comments

by Dayna Zunder
According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, and refer to conditions that affect heart structure and function, and blood vessels1...
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Polycaprolactone as biodegradable polymer for the fabrication and In vitro release studies of purmorphamine-loaded microspheres to engineer neural tissue comments

by Stephanie Willerth Laura De la Vega Reyes
Treatment for diseases in the central nervous system are challenging because of the physical and biochemical barriers that comprise the blood brain barrier and the blood-spinal cord barrier BSCB 1 ...
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Strength and Biocompatibility of Polycaprolactone-Borophosphosilicate Hybrid Biomaterials for Bone Tissue Engineering comments

by Kibret Mequanint Dibakar Mondal
Biomaterials designed for bone tissue engineering must be biocompatible and biodegradable and must promote bone cell attachment, proliferation, and migration such that the damaged tissue is repaired or replaced with the newly regenerated bone over time...
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Modelling cystic fibrosis chronic infection over an engineered mucus-like hydrogel comments

by Brendan Leung Courtney O'Brien
The protective mucus layer that lines the airways is responsible for trapping pathogens and clearing them through mucociliary clearance...
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Temperature Responsive Nanogels for the Encapsulation and Targeted Delivery of Nitroimidazole Derivatized Molecule for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Treatment of Hypoxic Liver Cancer comments

by Ravin Narain Stephen Quan
Nanogels have received huge attention in the past decade due to their non-toxic properties and the ability to encapsulate small molecules for drug delivery that enhance the therapeutic potency of the drugs 1 ...
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