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International
Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering
(IUS-BSE)
The International Union of Societies for Biomaterials
Science and Engineering represents the international biomaterials
community and is composed of two members from each of the
consituent societies. The two current CBS members are J.
P. Santerre (Toronto) and Hasan
Uludag (Alberta).
The IUS-BSE meets every four years at the
World Biomaterials Congress, and otherwise annually at the
Society for Biomaterials (U.S.) conference. It also works
informally between meetings. To maintain continuity between
World Congresses, the committee is chaired by the members
from one society on a 4-year rotation. Further, each society
is asked to keep its IUS-BSE representation constant during
that time. The IUS-BSE is currently chaired by the Australian
society.
You may visit the IUS-BSE's website here.
Here is the organizational membership of
the current IUS-BSE:
Click on the society's name to go to
that society's homepage
World
Biomaterials Congress
The principal duty of the IUS-BSE is the
organization of a World Biomaterials Congress once every
four years. The previous world congresses and those currently
planned are:
- Vienna, Austria (1980)
- Washington, U.S.A. (1984)
- Kyoto, Japan (1988)
- Berlin, Germany (1992)
- Toronto, Canada (1996)
- Hawaii, U.S.A (2000)
- Sydney, Australia (2004)
- Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008)
Coming Up:
- Chengdu, China (2012)
- Montréal, Canada (2016)
You can learn more about the 9th
World Biomaterials Congress in Chengdu, China,
2012 by clicking here.
To learn more about the World
Biomaterials Congresses, see the WBC site at
www.worldbiomaterials.org.
Fellows
in biomaterials Science and Engineering
The IUS-BSE is also responsible for naming
the recipients of the title of Fellow of Biomaterials Science
and Engineering (FBSE). You can learn more about this honour
and the current Canadian recipients on the FBSE
Page.
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