Reminders
SFB Announces the First Ever C. William Hall Scholarship! Application Deadline February 15, 2010.
April 21-24, 2010 – Seattle, WA
The abstract submission deadline has passed and we are no longer accepting abstracts.
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Highlights
Special Interest Group of the Month
Cardiovascular Biomaterials
Student Chapter of the Quarter
Clemson University
News
Biomaterials Days
We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2009 – 2010 Biomaterials Day grants!
Plan to attend the upcoming Biomaterials Days Events:
Texas A&M University: February 22, 2010
Co-sponsored by the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Biomaterials Day at Texas A&M aims to enhance networking between academic and industrial sectors and increase student exposure to exciting biomaterials research.
Click here to view the Texas A & M Biomaterials Day website
Columbia University: March 27, 2010
The Biomaterials Day at Columbia University will be a symposium focusing on the state-of-the-art biomaterials-related research that is being performed in the northeastern United States. The Biomaterials Day will coincide with the Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) which will be held at Columbia University from March 26-28th, 2010 and will include an entire day featuring a biomaterials-specific session on March 27th. Click here to view the Columbia University Biomaterials Day website.
More detailed information is available for all of the events here.
New Board of Directors
During the Society For Biomaterials 2009 Annual Meeting, a new Board of Directors was installed:
| Lynne Jones | - | President |
| Jeremy Gilbert | - | President-Elect |
| Antonios Mikos | - | Secretary/Treasurer |
| Laura Suggs | - | Secretary/Treasurer-Elect |
| Michele Marcologo | - | Member-at-Large |
| Jeffrey Hubbell | - | 1st Past President |
| Martine LaBerge | - | 2nd Past President |
Biomaterial
of the Month
Self Reinforcing Polyphenylene (SRP)
Self reinforcing polyphenylene is a revolutionary new family of ultra-performance engineering polymers whose main polymer backbone structure is comprised entirely of directly linked phenylene units. This class of polymers had been known for a long time, but it was only in the last few years that these polymers have been possible to produce on production scale in a form that is amenable to conventional thermoplastic melt processing and fabrication techniques. This was achieved by the careful tailoring of backbone substituent groups and other aspects of molecular architecture of the polymers.
Information provided by Solvay Advanced Polymers.
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