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...

Post transcriptional silencing of aberrant genes with the delivery of short interfering RNA siRNA has been a potent approach to cancer therapy over the last decade...

Hydrogels have been extensively studied as scaffolds for tissue engineering due to their cell compatibility and similar mechanical properties as native soft tissues...

Glioblastoma comprises more than 50 of all gliomas which is the most frequent type of brain tumor. 1 Current treatment strategies for this cancer includes surgical resection, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy...

Articular cartilage has a limited capacity for regeneration. Tissue engineering aims to generate functional cartilage tissue to replace the damaged tissue...

Patients treated with radiotherapy for head neck cancer and patients with Sj gren s syndrome SS experience decreased saliva flow due to the loss of salivary gland SG acinar cells...