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Dear CBS Members and Friends. As our annual general meeting AGM approaches we are actively seeking nominations for available spots on the Board of Directors for the CBS, the student representative, and both secretary and treasurer roles...
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Dear CBS Friends and Members, Please find the Spring 2026 newsletter attached here. Regards, Patricia Comeau, CBS Secretary
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Dear CBS Members and Friends, We have been asked to share the following message on behalf of the organizing committee for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS meeting in Vancouver, BC...
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Dear Canadian Biomaterials Society Members Friends, A call for late-breaking abstracts has now been released for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in sunny Vancouver, BC...
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Immunomodulatory hydrogel microspheres as a sustained release system for angiogenic growth factors comments

by Eric Tawagi
Revascularization approaches that involve delivering growth factors with short half-lives minutes over periods of weeks in order to regenerate micro vessels have been identified as promising strategies to address disorders related to compromised tissue perfusion...
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Local Delivery of Chondroitinase ABC Promotes Neuronal Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Grafts in a Spinal Cord Injury Model comments

by Molly Shoichet
Functional recovery following spinal cord injury SCI is limited due to a cascade of cellular and biomolecular events, termed secondary injury, that lead to cell loss and the expression of growth inhibitory molecules...
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Direct Reprogramming of Glioma Cells to Neurons via Small Molecules and a Novel Protein Delivery System comments

by Christopher Lee
Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer. It is the most common of all malignant central nervous system tumours and the deadliest primary brain cancer...
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Contrast-enhanced biocompatible hydrogels for 3D-printed objects visualized in MRI comments

by Philippe Legros
Hydrogels are used in several applications of regenerative medicine e.g. post-surgery procedures, wound healing, tissue reconstruction ...
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Hybrid Chitosan and Platelet-Rich Plasma Biomaterial for Wound Healing comments

by Laura Ahunon
The Biomaterial and Cartilage Laboratory has been developing a hybrid biomaterial that was proven effective for several orthopaedic applications in regenerative medicine...
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