Prof. Todd Hoare, McMaster University, Canada

Todd Hoare

Todd Hoare is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Engineered Smart Materials and a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University. Dr. Hoare’s work on “smart” environmentally-responsive hydrogels, in situ-gelling/printable hydrogel materials, and nanoscale drug delivery vehicles has been recognized through the 2023 NSERC Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research, an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2018), and the 2009 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the International Union of Societies in Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUS-BSE) and served as a past-president of the Canadian Biomaterials Society (2016-2017) and the Canadian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society (2013-2015). He is currently Past-Chair of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada and serves as one of the Executive Editors of Chemical Engineering Journal, where he co-founded the Applied Biomaterials & Biotechnologies section.