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...

The cornea is the most important refractive component of the ocular system 1 . Corneal epithelial cells are exposed to shear stresses that are caused by the eyelids during blinking 2 ...

Hydrogels are often used as both drug and cell delivery vehicles due to their high water content, which facilitates diffusion, and mechanical properties, which minimize inflammation from mechanical irritation...

Personalized oral dosage forms with tunable release profiles have emerged for optimal treatment of chronic diseases that require variable patterns of drug release in the treatment regimen...

Generally, drug molecules are associated with low solubility in physiological media, rapid metabolism or undesired interaction with proteins present in the blood including enzymes and antibodies...

In recent years, interest on algae is continuously increasing due to high demand of energy and high price of fossil fuels increased our focus on alternative or replacement of fossil fuels...