Matthew L. Becker is the Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering & Material Science, Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University. His multidisciplinary research team is focused on developing bioactive polymers and medical devices which address unmet medical needs at the interface of chemistry, materials and medicine. Professor Becker is a Kavli Fellow and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering and the American Chemical Society. He was awarded the 2019 Carl S. Marvel Award in Creative Polymer Chemistry from the American Chemical Society and the Macromolecules-Biomacromolecules Young Investigator Award in 2015. Dr. Becker consults for several medical device and med tech companies and a number of innovations have been licensed from his laboratory. He is the founder of Viamer Biosciences.