William Hoffman

Communications, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota

Phone: (612) 624-7116 FAX: (612) 625-1121 E-mail: hoffm003@umn.edu

Executive Director & Founder Minnesota Biomedical & Bioscience Network	Creator, World Stem Cell Map	Nature, December 22, 2005	Financial Times, July 20, 2006
Global Bioclusters Map EMBO reports, Feb. 2006	Global Biosecurity Sandia National Labs, July 31, 2006	The Hon. Jeff Bingaman U.S. Senate April 11, 2007	World Stem Cell Policy Map U.S. Senate, April 11, 2007

Current Talk Themes

Global Maps of Discovery: How We Got From Columbus and Magellan to Dolly the sheep and the Great Stem Cell Race.

• "Stem Cells and the New 'Age of Discovery'" [PowerPoint, 5MB], AUTM Central Regional Meeting, July 23, 2006.
• "Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Global Project," Theology and Genetics, University of St. Thomas, Jan. 7, 2009.
• "Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Global Project," Theology and the Biomedical Revolution, University of St. Thomas, March 5, 2009.
• "Stem Cell Research and the Future of Health Care," Great Lakes Dental Research Study Club, April 18, 2009.
• "Mapping hESC Research Policy," NIH-hESC training course, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, April 30, 2009.
• "Global Stem Cell Research: A variegated ethical and legal terrain," Ethical and Legal Issues in Genetic Counseling, University of Minnesota, May 1, 2009.

Why Clusters of Innovation Will End Up on Google and iPod.

The World is Flat: Some Implications for Universities.

• 
  "New Knowledge Frontiers in a Flat World: A Campus Perspective," [PDF] Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, Sept. 28, 2006.

• "New Bioscience Frontiers in a Flat World," Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Nov 7, 2006.

St. Johns University, Collegeville, MN
University of Minnesota, B.A. history
University of Minnesota, M.A. journalism and mass communication

Free-lance writer
Independent consultant
Editor and writer, University Relations, University of Minnesota [1978 - 1983]
Editor/Communications, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota [1983 - ]
Science writer, Research and Diagnostic Systems, Inc., Minneapolis [1987 - 1988]
Assistant to the Director, Biomedical Engineering Center, University of Minnesota [1990 - 1997]
Director of Communications and Community Affairs, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, University of Minnesota [1997 - 2000]
Coordinator, Pre-graduate educational programs in biomedical technology and bioscience [1990 - 2003]
Executive Director & Founder, MBBNet [1995 - ]
Member, Public Education Committee, International Society for Stem Cell Research - ISSCR [2005 - ]

Books

William Hoffman and Leo T. Furcht. BIOZONES: The scramble to seize the new knowledge of life for economic advantage. In Preparation.

James H. Moller, William A. Neal, and William Hoffman. A Parent's Guide to Heart Disorders, [AHA Homepage] University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1988.

Articles

William Hoffman. "Meet Monsieur Cholesterol" Update (University of Minnesota), Fall 1979. (Profile of world-renowned cardiovascular epidemiologist Ancel Keys).

William Hoffman. "A Glacier, a Lake, a River, and Soil for the Future" Report (University of Minnesota), Spring 1979. (Report on the 1979 flood in the Red River Valley).

William Hoffman. "Travels of a Newspaperman: From Minneapolis to Moscow" Update (University of Minnesota), Winter 1981. (Profile of Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Harrison Salisbury).

William Hoffman. "Cray's Mark Remains, Speed with Simplicity," Update (University of Minnesota), Spring 1983. (Exclusive profile of supercomputer genius Seymour Cray.

Jorge J. Yunis and William R. Hoffman. "Birth of an Errant Cell: A New Theory About the Cause of Cancer,"The Sciences (New York Academy of Sciences), November/December 1985.

William Hoffman. "Gene Splicing: Giving Life a New Twist." Encounters (Science Museum of Minnesota), January/February 1987, pp. 11-15.

J.J. Yunis, W.R. Hoffman. "Nuclear Enzymes, Fragile Sites, and Cancer," Journal of Gerontology (Biological Sciences, Special Issue) 44:37-44, 1989.

Jorge J. Yunis, William R. Hoffman. "Fragile Sites as a Mechanism in Carcinogenesis," The Cancer Bulletin (MD Anderson Cancer Center) 41 (5):283-292, 1989.

William Hoffman. "The Long View From The Watonwan River" The Millenarian Odyssey of Pioneer Druggist Henry Wellcome. Unpublished manuscript, 1990.

Consultant to Leo T. Furcht, M.D. for "Laboratory Medicine in the 21st Century" and "Biotechnology: Challenges, Convergence, and a New Century".

William Hoffman. "Taking the Pulse of Medical Technology: Will health system reform put innovation--and maybe our economy--at risk?" Minnesota Medicine: A Journal of Clinical and Health Affairs, Vol. 77, November 1994.

William Hoffman. "Indispensable: Hospitals and physicians increasingly are relying on the expertise of clinical pharmacists like Wendy St. Peter to help manage patients' care" Minnesota Medicine: A Journal of Clinical and Health Affairs, Vol. 78, August 1995.

William Hoffman. "Business Forum: 'Fertile soil' for biological research" Star Tribune [Minneapolis], September 14, 2003.

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