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WBC2016 Legacy Travel Award Deadline Extended to March 2 0 comments

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The deadline for the WBC2016 Legacy Travel Award has been extended to March 2, 2026, to match the abstract deadline extension for the CBS CSPS CC-CRS Conference...
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Abstract Deadline Extended for CBS/CSPS/CC-CRS Conference 0 comments

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Dear members and friends of the Canadian Biomaterials Society, The abstract deadline has been extended to March 2nd, 2026 for the upcoming CBS CCPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in Vancouver, BC...
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Dear friends , For this years annual meeting in beautiful Vancouver, BC June 2 - 5 2026 we are happy to partner with the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS and the Canadian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS ...
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Call for Abstracts for CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS Conference is now open! 0 comments

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Call for Abstracts is OPEN The Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS , the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS , and the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS are joining forces to host a landmark joint conference at UBC Vancouver...
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“On-demand” nanofibrous poly(oligo ethylene glycol methacrylate) (POEGMA) hydrogel scaffolds with layered co-encapsulated cells via reactive electrospinning comments

by Todd Hoare Fei XU
In the last two decades, hydrogels have been widely explored for tissue regeneration due to their tunable mechanics, cell compatibility, ease of functionalization, and similarity to soft tissues...
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MUSSEL-INSPIRED ALGINATE GEL PROMOTING THE OSTEOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS AND ANTI-INFECTION comments

by Rene Mbeleck
Cell encapsulation demonstrates a very high potential for future tissue engineering applications, since Chang proposed the concept of artificial microencapsulation in 1964 1 ...
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Development of Chitosan Coatings by Plasma-Grafting for Prevention of Contamination for Medical Devices comments

by Juliana M. Vaz
Bacterial contamination is a public health and socio-economic problem. In Canada, 220,000 people will develop nosocomial infections each year, 8,000 will die and 106...
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Cyclic Mechanical Stimulation of SMCs: A Comparative Study between 2D and 3D Models comments

by Daniele Pezzoli
With the ageing of the population worldwide and the increasing of the life expectancy, the demand for new reliable models to study physiological and pathological processes occurring in vascular tissues is growing...
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Pleiotrophin/heparin-Modified Type 1 Collagen Gels for Improved Re-Endothelialisation comments

by Francesco Copes
Arterial bypass graft is the primary therapy for patients with advanced vascular occlusion diseases and, in recent years, the development of tissue-engineered vascular grafts has emerged as a promising, clinically applicable alternative to autografts...
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  • Nathália Fernanda Sczesny: Multi-approach surface modification on Polyetheretherketone for dental implants application
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  • Brenden Wheeler: Implementation and Study of Standardized Condensation Synthesis Strategies for Degradable Polyester Biomaterials
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  • Élie Daoust: Optimization of a test bench for the evaluation of blood embolizing agents for arterial and venous applications
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  • Kate MacQuarrie: Smooth muscle cell-like support cells accelerate the autologous endothelialization of a polyurethane scaffold for vascular engineering
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  • Alma Tamunonengiofori Banigo: Bioactive Hydrogels Based on Tyramine and Maleimide Functionalized Dextran for Tissue Engineering Applications
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  • Alma Tamunonengiofori Banigo: Injectable hydrogels for cartilage tissue engineering: key design needs toward clinical applications
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  • Alma Tamunonengiofori Banigo: Hydrogel-Based Bioinks for Coaxial and Triaxial Bioprinting: A Review of Material Properties, Printing Techniques, and Applications
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