Dr. Davenport Huyer is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in the Departments of Biomaterials & Applied Oral Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Microbiology & Immunology, and an Affiliate Scientist with Nova Scotia Health. He completed his BASc at Queen's University (2014) and PhD at University of Toronto (2019) in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, followed by postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University. His research program is focused on chronic inflammation related to medical device implants and the development of biomaterial technologies to modulate chronic inflammation in disease. In recognition of his research, he recently received the Dalhousie University President’s Research Excellence Award – Emerging Investigator in 2024 and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.