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Professor Hoffman studied at M.I.T., where he received B.S., M.S., and Sc.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering between 1953 and 1957.  He taught on the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department at M.I.T. for a total of ten years and for the past 40 years he has been Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA.

 

He is currently Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington and WCU Distinguished Professor at the Kyungpook National University Medical School in Daegu, South Korea. He also holds a position as Honorary Professor in iNANO at the University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

 

Four of his awards and recognitions are:

• President of the Society for Biomaterials (USA) (1983-84)

• Founders’ Award of the Society for Biomaterials (USA) (2000)

• Founders’ Award of the Controlled Release Society (2007)

• Elected to the USA National Academy of Engineering (2005)