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...

One out of nine Canadian men will suffer prostate cancer PC during his lifetime 1 . Life expectancy of men with PC has increased due to androgen deprivation therapy and nowadays 90 of PC patients live 10 years...

Transmission of diseases could occur by direct contact with surfaces contaminated by pathogens. Significant resources have been allocated to the cleaning and disinfection of surfaces against the spreading of corona virus during Covid-19 pandemic...

Interpenetrating polymer networks IPNs are a class of cross-linked materials in which two distinct networks overlap within the same bulk volume...

Bacterial contamination is a public health and socio-economic problem. In Canada, 220,000 people will develop nosocomial infections each year, 8,000 will die and 106...

When a dispositive is implanted in the human body, the first interactions its surface establishes with the surrounding biological tissues and fluids will influence its clinical success...