He held his COFUND postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University in 2009-2011, working with Professor Chris Jacobs and renowned leaders in Mechanobiology, where he was able to develop a completely new set of skills and expertise in the area of Cell and Molecular Biomechanics. His COFUND RESPIRE international mobility fellowship was then completed at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, under Professor Fergal O’Brien tutelage, where Dr Hoey went on to develop more translational, therapeutic applications in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.