Matthew P. Hoffman BDS, PhD

Matt Hoffman is the senior investigator in the Matri?x and Morphogenesis Section of the Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology at the NIDCR. He received his dental degree from the Otago University Dental School in New Zealand.

He then worked clinically for 2 years for the Wellington Hospital Board. He did part-time microbiology research while working clinically and received a Fulbright Scholarship for Ph.D. training in the USA. He completed a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester in New York. He began postdoctoral training at NIH and then started his own laboratory at NIDCR in 2004.