Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

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...

Dear CBS Friends and Members, Please find the Spring 2026 newsletter attached here. Regards, Patricia Comeau, CBS Secretary

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...

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...

Naturally-bioactive hydrogels, such as gelatin methacrylate GelMA , provide favorable properties for tissue-engineering applications, but lack strength and require complex fabrication or multi-component additives, to improve material strength, which can compromise other properties...

Soft tissue mineralization, also known as ectopic mineralization, is defined as inappropriate biomineralization occurring in soft tissues...

The inflammatory response to blood-contacting biomaterials underlies many complications in clinical circulatory support...

Current synthetic vascular grafts VG lead to intimal hyperplasia and thrombosis which prevent their use in small diameter prostheses...

Wet age-related macular degeneration AMD is a disease of the posterior chamber of the eye and is the leading cause of vision loss in those 50 years of age and older, with approximately 500,000 people worldwide losing their vision annually...