Advertising on Biomat.net Connect with a wide audience Biomat.net is an organized and meaningful Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering communication resource for scientists, researchers, members of the business community, government, academia, and the general public. Biomat.net is widely recognized as the main website dedicated to this field. Biomat.net has been distinguished many times by several distinct printed and online resources, such as Science, BioMedNet and Medical Device Link. For further information please see other achievements and details about Biomat.net in the news in the About us section. Biomat.net sells newsletter and online advertising space, offering a range of advertising and sponsorship options that allow you to reach a wide but targeted audience of people interested in science, technology and health-related topics. The demographics of our readers allows you to reach several thousands of scientists around the world. Meet our rates and select among the advertising opportunities below: Newsletter sponsorship Website advertising Advertising packages If you are interested to learn more about our audience and our advertising opportunities please contact us at info@biomat.net. Advertising opportunities Newsletter sponsorships Biomaterials world news, articles, book reviews, endorsed meetings and other relevant information are published in the monthly Biomat.net Newsletter (10 issues per year). It is sent by email (text only version) to over 5500 registered members and then published online and stored as an HTML and PDF document. The newsletter is further distributed by several international societies. The newsletter sponsorship type includes email and full- or half-page ads on the online version of the newsletter. Newsletter (10 issues) Cost in (% discount) Email (text ad) Online PDF (color ad) Monthly Quarterly (15%) Annually (25%) Top Full page 150 380 1 125
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