Instructor: Larry Hench

Larry Hench
Biography:

The late Dr. Larry Hench brought to the BME program 45-plus years of educational and research experience at the interface of materials and medicine, with many important medical and dental products based upon the research from his laboratories at the University ofFlorida (32 years) and Imperial College London (10 years). Dr. Hench's seminal achievement came in 1969 when he discovered Bioglass, the first man-made material to bond to living tissues. The concept of bioactive bonding pioneered by Dr. Hench's discovery opened the field of biomedical materials to innovation that has led to numerous second- and third-generation materials and devices and revolutionized the approach to repair and regeneration of the body.


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