Hamish Named Mascot of WBC2020 in Glasgow

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 Business Meeting Scheduled at the 2016 World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal

  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 [...]

New Steering Committee Elected – 2016-2020

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                 [...]

ICF-BSE Fellows Debate Session Topic: Nanotechnology is More Hype Than Hope

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 [...]

2012 Fellows Session – Can we regrow a human arm?

This session held at the 9th WBC in Chengdu, China This was a 3 hour long coordinated program of selected talks with audience participation. Six Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering presented scientific arguments for or against the idea that it will be possible to regrow a complete human arm within the next 20 years. The [...]

2008 Fellows Session – Utility of animal experimentation as a predictive tool for the success or failure of a medical implant in humans

At the 8th World Biomaterials Congress, in Amsterdam, a new type of session was introduced. A special fellows session featured Fellows debating a controversial topic in biomaterials, which encouraged audience participation and engaging talks. It was agreed that this session was a great success and should be replicated at future WBC meetings and meetings of [...]