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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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CBS representatives at IUS-BSE (2020-2024) 0 comments

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...
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Winner of CBS Service Award - Dr. Diego Mantovani 0 comments

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...
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Polymer chain mobility dependent fetuin adsorption affects cell proliferation on elastomer surfaces comments

by Brian Amsden Moira Vyner
Tissue cells are known to respond to the stiffness of their substrate, however the mechanism by which they sense substrate stiffness is not well understood...
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Chitosan Thermogels for Local T Lymphocyte Delivery in Cancer Immunotherapy comments

by Caroline Ceccaldi
Systemic adoptive T lymphocyte transfer is an emerging cancer immunotherapy showing tremendous promise in clinical studies, and its success lies in the ability of the antigen-experienced cytotoxic T lymphocytes cTL to access and to persist in the tumour microenvironment 1 ...
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Toll-like receptor 2-mediated NF-kB activation by damage-associated molecular patterns on biomaterial surfaces comments

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick Laura McKiel
The innate immune response is the body s primary defense against infection and injury, and is facilitated largely by white blood cells, such as macrophages...
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Microfluidic Generation of Core Shell Multicellular Cancer Spheroids comments

by Albert Gevorkian
It is currently established that two-dimensional 2D cancer cell culture fails to recapitulate the essential features of in vivo tumor growth...
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Adsorption of Protein on a Au Surface Studied by All-Atom Atomistic Simulations comments

by Aoran Wei
Currently, the dominance of research on nanomedicine focuses on the use of Au nanoparticles AuNPs in a broad range of biological applications...
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