[This event has passed, please see report here] We are excited to announce the Fellows Session at ESB 2017! It will be held Tuesday, September 5th 12-13:30 in Voudouri Hall The topic will be Important Biomaterials Science Controversies and will feature brief talks by 5 Fellows. Each talk is based around a different current controversy in [...]
Pictured from L to R: Michael Sefton, Jack Ricci, Fred Schoen, Joachim Kohn, David Granger, Peter Ma and Paul Santerre A very successful debate was held at the Society for Biomaterials meeting in April on the topic Clinical studies are the only true predictor of safety and efficacy for all new medical technologies. At [...]
[This event has passed, please see agenda/minutes here] The Fellows Business Meeting will be held on Tuesday Sept 5, 2017 12-13:30 in Room MC 3.2 at the ESB 2017 Annual Meeting in Athens. Fellows will recieve an invitation and RSVP information via email. An agenda will be sent to all those who RSVP.
Hamish, the highland cow, has been named the official mascot of WBC2020, to be held in Glasgow, Scotland. You can follow Hamish on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Hamishthecow Please see below for more information from the organizers of WBC2020: The Executive Committee is delighted to invite you to Glasgow to participate and share in the 11th Biomaterials Congress WBC2020 19-24 [...]
Fellows of the ICF-BSE are invited to participate in the upcoming Fellows Business Meeting at the World Biomaterials Congress Montreal. The meeting will be conducted on Thursday May 19th, from 3:30PM-5:00PM. An agenda with topics for discussion will be sent to all registrants who are Fellows of the College. If you'll be attending the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal, please [...]
The election for the next Steering Committee of the ICF-BSE was held throughout the month of February, and results are now finalized. Please see below for the election results: Newly Elected ICF-BSE Steering Committee: Stuart L. Cooper Society for Biomaterials- USA Fu-zhai Cui [...]
The ICF-BSE has announced the initiation of of election procedures for its Steering Committee. Fellows who would like to be considered for the Steering Committee are encouraged to nominate themselves, or to nominate other Fellows who would be excellent candidates for the College leadership committee. Nominations for the Steering Committee will be accepted until January [...]
ICF-BSE Fellows Session, WBC-Montreal 2016 Wednesday May 18th, 2016 16:30-18:30 “Is Nanotechnology More Hype Than Hope?” Speakers: Joelle Amedee, Antonietta Gatti, John Hunt, John Kao, Michael Sefton, Liping Tang" Moderator: Joachim Kohn The “Special Fellows Session” is organized by the International College of Fellows in Biomaterials Science and Engineering (ICF-BSE). Special Fellows Sessions explore pertinent [...]
This Fellows Session focused on the topic of biomaterials education. This is the 5th such session and the popularity of the event is ever-growing. Thank you to the speakers and the audience! Speakers: David Grainger, Dietmar Hutmacher, Kristi Anseth, Laura Poole-Warren, Kathleen Elizabeth Tanner, Lynne Jones Moderator: Joachim Kohn
The very popular Fellows Debate Session was held at the 2015 Society for Biomaterials meeting in Charlotte, NC. This year the topic was "Is translational research more impactful than basic research?" Two very strong teams debated this topic, but in the end the Basic Research team won. For Translational Research: David Grainger, John Kao, Michael [...]