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...

There remains an immediate need for skin substitutes despite significant developments in the management of severe skin loss...

Hydrogels have wide applications in tissue engineering and bioelectronics. In spite of widespread applications of functional hydrogels with superior conductive or magnetic responsive performances, there are still some limitations caused by insufficient flexibility, resilience and responsive sensitivity in some fields, such as highly flexible electronics, organic pressure sensitive sensors, and responsive actuators...

N-functionalized polypyrrole PPy is electrically conductive and can be readily activated with biomolecules, which is particularly useful in biosensors 1 ...

We report a mussel shell-derived membrane with a multiscale ordered structure for wound dressing. As an ideal biologically derived dressing, it should be non-toxic and non-allergenic with an appropriate pore size to remove excess exudates...

Synthetic graft biomaterials have been explored as alternatives to autologous grafts with considerable success in large- 8 mm and medium-diameter arteries 6-8 mm ...