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...
CBS representatives at IUS-BSE (2020-2024)
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by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
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...
Winner of CBS Service Award - Dr. Diego Mantovani
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by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
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...
Bioelastomers biocompatible elastic polymers are extensively used in tissue engineering due to their desirable mechanical strength, tunable properties, and chemical versatility...
Intervertebral disk degeneration IVDD is a common disease, especially in elderly people, that causes severe back pain and affects patients mobility and life quality considerably...
Conventional drug screening is performed on cells cultured on 2D, stiff poly styrene , which provides an environment that misrepresents the morphology and growth characteristics of patient tumours...
Vascular tissue engineering usually relies on the cellularization of scaffold materials with vascular cells with the ultimate aim to produce artificial blood vessels substitutes overcoming the drawbacks of current vascular grafts, especially for small diameter vessels...
Investigating the response of human dermal and gingival fibroblasts to changes in substratum compliance: Implications for soft tissue biomaterials development.
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Development of biomaterials for regeneration of soft tissues still faces critical challenges related to control of cell phenotype and the prevention of contraction scar tissue formation upon implantation...
