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Dr. Brenton Hoffman is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He received a B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University, earned a PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed Post-doctoral training in the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Virginia. Dr. Hoffman’s current research interests are in the areas of cell mechanics, cell migration, and mechanotransduction, with a particular focus on the development of new tools and approaches for studying the effects of mechanical loading on protein function in living cells. His lab has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Heart Association. He has been awarded a Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Award from the March of Dimes (2013), a Searle Scholar Award (2013), and NSF CAREER Award (2015). He has also received the Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering for excellence in teaching (2016), was named a Duke Bass Fellow for excellence in research and undergraduate instruction (2020), and received the Iwao Yasuda Award for excellence in service to the Cell and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group of the Biomedical Engineering Society (2022).