international union of societies for biomaterials science and engineering

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 constituent societies. The two current SBAOI members are Chandra P. Sharma and Ajit Kumar. 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 principal duty of the IUS-BSE is the organization of a World Biomaterials Congress once every four years. The previous world congresses were: 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), and those currently planned are: Chengdu, China (2012) and Montréal, Canada (2016).           The IUS-BSE is also responsible for naming the recipients of the title of Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE).