Reminders
Officer Nominations Now Open!
Nominations for the positions of 2011 - 2012 President-Elect, Secretary / Treasurer-Elect and Member-At-Large are being taken now. To nominate yourself or another Society For Biomaterials member, submit a nominating letter and CV to Dan Lemyre at dlemyre@biomaterials.org by Friday, September 24.
Awards Nominations Deadline is September 24! The Society For Biomaterials is now accepting nominations for the 2011 awards to be presented at the Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida next April. Deadline for nominations is Friday, September 17. Click here to be taken to the nominations login page.
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Highlights
Special Interest Group of the Month
Implant Pathology
Student Chapter of the Quarter
University of Memphis
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New Board of Directors
During the Society For Biomaterials 2010 Annual Meeting, a new Board of Directors was installed:
| Jeremy Gilbert | - | President |
| Karen Burg | - | President-Elect |
| Antonios Mikos | - | Secretary/Treasurer |
| Laura Suggs | - | Secretary/Treasurer-Elect |
| Warren Haggard | - | Member-at-Large |
| Lynne Jones | - | 1st Past President |
| Jeffrey Hubbell | - | 2nd Past President |
2010 Award Recipients
At the 2010 Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony the Society For Biomaterials honored the following individuals:
Founders Award: Stuart Cooper, PhD, Ohio State University
C. William Hall Award: Nicholas Peppas, ScD, University of Texas at Austin
Clemson Award for Applied Research: Michael Yaszemski, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Clemson Award for Basic Research: William "Monty" Reichert, PhD, Duke University
Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD, Columbia University
Young Investigator Award: Todd McDevitt, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Student Awards For Outstanding Research:
PhD Candidate: Pamela Knight, Case Western Reserve University
Masters Degree: Elaine Lee, Case Western Reserve University
Undergraduate: Rebecca Scott, Saint Louis University
In addition, the Society awarded the first ever C. William Hall Scholarship to Eli Vlaisavljevich, Michigan Technological University.
Biomaterial
of the Month
Golden Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering Applications
Silk proteins have been well known to the textile industries for centuries and to doctors as sutures for decades. Silk is a biopolymer, synthesized in the epithelial cells of specialized glands, secreted into the lumen and finally spun into fibres by several Lepidopteran larvae. The spun fibre is built from a central protein, fibroin, encased with a glue-like coating composed of another protein, sericin.
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