Todd Hoare

Dr. Todd Hoare is an Associate Professor, University Scholar, and Canada Research Chair in Engineered Smart Materials (Tier 2) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University, Ontario joining McMaster in 2008 after a post-doctoral fellowship with Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Todd specializes in engineering hydrogels on all length scales with targeted “smart” properties, with a focus on correlating material properties with biological responses to develop new drug delivery vehicles with “on demand” or environment-specific activity. Todd’s work has been profiled by Popular Science, Wired, and BBC for its potential in solving clinical challenges through innovative biomaterials design. He has published over 65 papers, has three granted patents (including two of which have led to a recent start-up) and six pending patent applications, and won an Innovation Challenge award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada recognizing the novelty and commercializability of his research. Todd received the 2016 Early Investigator Award from the Canadian Biomaterials Society and the 2010 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Chemistry from the Government of Ontario. He is an Associate Editor of Chemical Engineering Journal for materials engineering, a member of the editorial advisory board for Colloid and Polymer Science, and President-Elect of the Canadian Biomaterials Society.